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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: 0.31s | 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. _DeadFred_ ◴[01 Apr 25 16:30 UTC] No.43548718[source]▶
Convict employers of workers not allowed to work legally and people will self deport. Oh but that would convict the wrong sort of criminal. We don't go after the criminals that exploit an underclass, that hire illegals so they can avoid paying into social security, that hire illegals so they can pay under required wages, that hire illegals so that they can exploit them all kinds of ways. Instead you propose we deny due process to gay barbers and send them to overseas concentration camps as step one (ignoring the administration can't even fill the first batch of a few hundred out of tens of thousands of claimed 'gangbangers' with actual criminals).