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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: 0.202s | 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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1. catlover76 ◴[01 Apr 25 13:43 UTC] No.43546703[source]▶
One of the fundamental tenets of the US legal system (and, at one time, its culture) is that rights like due process are more important than helping facilitate the government's will at scale.

The one place this has been debased and eroded has been NatSec, and that's part of why the government wants to use that justification for its immigration enforcement.