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US accidentally sent Maryland father to Salvadorian prison, can't get him back

(www.independent.co.uk)
224 points croes | 1 comments | 01 Apr 25 09:14 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source
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BLKNSLVR ◴[01 Apr 25 09:49 UTC] No.43544819[source]▶
Accidents like this are required in order to demonstrate the scale of the "will" behind the power.

This should be a un-ignorable reminder of the value of due process. Better a guilty person go free than an innocent person sent to their long, slow, undignified death.

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ReptileMan ◴[01 Apr 25 10:15 UTC] No.43545006[source]▶
>This should be a un-ignorable reminder of the value of due process

I agree with you.

Now explain how can we scale the due process to deport everyone that entered here illegally in a reasonable timeframe. 15-30 million hearings will take a century to be resolved.

The system is not designed for such massive load in mind.

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BLKNSLVR ◴[01 Apr 25 10:23 UTC] No.43545048[source]▶
If it's so important to get done quickly, hire more people to do it. Move resources to solve the most pressing problems first.

Otherwise let law/justice take as long as law/justice takes.

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ReptileMan ◴[01 Apr 25 10:31 UTC] No.43545097[source]▶
>Otherwise let law/justice take as long as law/justice takes.

Once again I agree with you. Let's deport them first and make remote immigration courts in every US embassy. This way they have remedy for false positives, and let law/justice take as long as law/justice takes

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1. ethbr1 ◴[01 Apr 25 11:12 UTC] No.43545374[source]▶
It sure would have helped if we'd hired those additional immigration judges that the bipartisan bill would have funded... before Trump shot it down to deny Biden a political point.

And being forcibly removed from the US is exactly the sort of power that due process is intended to limit, by Constitutional design for all people in the US (not just citizens).