Second...how can the ACLU say they aren't getting due process? They aren't citizens...they are here ILLEGALLY and therfore do not fall under the protections of due process...this is not illegal and unconstitutional IMHO.
Capt Gregory Prickett
I never said Due Process doesn't apply. I think the problem here is that you're confused on what Due Process is. Due process is the legal requirement that the state must respect all legal rights that are owed to a person. Some rights that apply to criminal proceedings do not apply to administrative proceeding, and SCOTUS says deportation is an administrative proceeding.
What legal scholars? Do you have a source for those "Legal Scholars" and do they have names?
http://stopdeportationsnow.blogspot.com/2011/08/is-immigration-law-civil-or-criminal.html
Is Immigration Law Civil or Criminal?
Immigration law in the United States is civil, not criminal. People found to be in violation of immigration law are not punished; they are ...
Detained Immigrants and the Right to Counsel
The Supreme Court has held that deportation is not punishment, but rather an administrative procedure whereby an illegal alien is returned to his homeland. The alien has not been deprived of life, liberty, or property, so many constitutional protections do not apply.Most important to the discussion is the fact that most detainees facing deportation are dealing with administrative charges in a civil process, rather than criminal. Consequently...
“Following the Japanese attack of Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, the United States entered one of its darkest moments in history. After officially declaring war on the Japanese Empire, the American government decided to strike its first blow by lashing out at fellow citizens and resident aliens of Japanese ancestry living in the United States. A movement of tremendous proportion soon commenced, and resulted in the incarceration of over 120,000 Japanese Americans. They were moved into 10 wartime communities constructed in remote areas between the Sierra Nevada Mountains and the Mississippi River. Ironically, over 70 percent of the imprisoned Japanese were American citizens. Executive Order 9066 was signed in 1942, making this movement official government policy. The order suspended the writ of habeas corpus and denied Japanese Americans their rights under the Fifth Amendment, which states that no person shall be deprived of life, liberty or property without due process. Roosevelt justified the order on the grounds of military necessity, declaring that Japanese Americans were a threat to national security.
Anti-Japanese sentiments had been developing in the U.S. long before WWII had even begun. To most Americans in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, all Asian immigrants posed a threat to the American standard of living and to the racial integrity of the nation. “These attitudes were not seen as racist at the time, but simply American”1. Legislation as early as the 1850’s exclusively singled out Asian Americans and barred them from many of the rights that were granted to other white immigrants.”
https://www-m.cnn.com/2018/06/24/us/us-long-history-of-separating-families-trnd/index.html
Actually, the US has a long history of separating families
Many Americans say the practice of separating migrant children from their families is not who we are. But policies like these are nothing new.
http://www.presidency.ucsb.edu/ws/index.php?pid=94079
John McCain: Press Release - Barack Obama - A
The American Presidency Project contains the most comprehensive collection of resources pertaining to the study of the President of the United States. Compiled by John Woolley and Gerhard Peters