• @[email protected]
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    273 months ago

    There’s a school of thought out there where only citizens have the full rights granted by the constitution…

    Meanwhile there’s no such thing as precedent or rule of law…

    • chingadera
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      43 months ago

      That school of thought would have to include the fact that if rights don’t apply, neither do laws, and being “an illegal” wouldn’t exist because those rights and laws no longer apply.

      It falls apart when you spend 0 seconds thinking about it.

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      That “school of thought” is just flat-out wrong. The Bill of Rights doesn’t say what rights people have; it says what Congress cannot do. When Congress can’t do it at all, who it can’t do it to is irrelevant.

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      Don’t see the word “citizen” in the first amendment.

      Spoiler: even illegal immigrants are entitled to due process.

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        73 months ago

        Tell that to the moron MAGA supporters. They keep saying that the US Constitution is only for US citizens, no one else.

        I guess they don’t know about, “WE THE PEOPLE”.

        • @[email protected]
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          43 months ago

          You and I are the only US citizens. Those people faked their documents. They can prove it if El Salvador is willing to un-deport them.