This is so utterly frightening.
And disturbing to see how quickly stories like this are flagged into invisibility on HN.
edit: luckily enough people vouched for the story to be rescued.
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edit: luckily enough people vouched for the story to be rescued.
As an outsider, especially as one who visited the US every quarter for over two decades, and was asked every time on the purpose of my weeklong trip, I see nothing wrong with the deportation of someone in violation of their visa requirements.
I also don’t see how foreigners (or “aliens” as US law seems to prefer) can claim protection under the US Constitution. If the latter does provide it, that’s great, but frankly it makes no sense to me.
As a visitor to a country I expect to follow that country’s laws, and not expect any privileges which are afforded to that country’s citizens.
https://constitution.congress.gov/browse/essay/artI-S8-C18-8...
Eventually, the Supreme Court extended these constitutional protections to all aliens within the United States, including those who entered unlawfully, declaring that "aliens who have once passed through our gates, even illegally, may be expelled only after proceedings conforming to traditional standards of fairness encompassed in due process of law." The Court reasoned that aliens physically present in the United States, regardless of their legal status, are recognized as "persons" guaranteed due process of law by the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments