Originally Posted by Richard Davis
Can you please tell us how much this should cost US taxpayers?
Should we be prepared to spend upwards of $2,000,000,000,000 or More? Is that monetary figure something you are willing to make the US gov't pay for all the lawyers, court costs, and deportation costs?
Is that enough money or do you advocate for spending more?
Also, can you tell me any other nation who does this for people illegally entering the nation.
How long should US citizens be prepared to wait to deport the illegal aliens that ALL get to have their day in court as well as 2 appeals to higher courts?
While US citizens wait for the courts to remove these illegal aliens, will they be allowed to bring their relatives in from other nations?
If it takes 20 years or more to get them out of the country by deportation, should we continue to give them assistance provided by the US taxpayer and US citizens?
These are questions that inquiring minds want to know.
First, I am not demanding a hearing as if this were a new thing, the Constitution
requires it (except in some circumstances noted below). It is
you and apparently Trump who want to deport 15 million people without even offering them a chance to prove they are in the US legally. Your plan violates existing law and the Constitution.
Neither myself, nor the Supreme Court appears to want to change the law. Illegals for many many years have been entitled to a hearing before an immigration judge before they are deported. If you or Trump don't like it, try amending the Constitution to grant the Executive authority to deport anyone without any hearing, perhaps upon reasonable suspicion that the defendant might be here illegally. Perhaps on a whim. Good luck with that.
There are some exceptions of course. If the illegal is caught sneaking across the border he can be sent back without a hearing. If the alien was deported once, he can be re-deported if he comes back (after some due process to determine identity.) That sort of thing.
The issue tried in an immigration hearing is pretty easy, "are you here legally?" So the existing process is not that expensive. I suspect that when the dust settles, the Court will require a more detailed showing of criminal activity, if the deportee is to be deported directly to an El Salvadoran prison, paid for by the US.
That is a full answer.
Now, you explain why you think it is OK to deport 15 million people without even offering them the opportunity to prove they are here legally?
