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You don’t have rights without a way to enforce them, and the courts are what our laws provide for the enforcement of rights against the government. Due process
by mattnewton 1y ago
You don’t have rights without a way to enforce them, and the courts are what our laws provide for the enforcement of rights against the government.
Due process already doesn’t need to be costly, Bush, Biden and Obama all deported millions and processed millions of asylum claims using administrative processes invented for this. Trump’s admin either doesn’t want to or is incapable of doing the work of governing by the book; so they attempt to trample people’s rights and effectively deputize random border security with the power to detain you or even throw you in CECOT for life. This worries some foreign conference visitors. Because it’s not clear that any law actually prevents it from happening to them in practice, they’d rather not visit the US and interact with those border agents. It’s that simple, there is no conspiracy of the “lawyer class” or “excessive litigation” “dragging our feet” or a “media invention”.
There has to be some due process or we have nothing enforcing our rights. There are no fast and easy solutions here, and I don’t think it is worth sacrificing it all to enable a strongman who can’t rise to the task otherwise. Let’s have a higher bar for the highest office in the land.