“There are 15 million illegal aliens,” Miller said adding that “if each were given a full trial, deportations would take centuries”

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said in a video that went viral on Friday that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process protections when being removed from the United States, arguing that providing full legal proceedings would make deportations unworkable.

“There are 15 million illegal aliens,” Miller said. “If each were given a full trial, deportations would take centuries. They had no due process entering the country, and they are not entitled to it when being removed.”

Supreme Court precedent has long held that constitutional protections apply to noncitizens within U.S. territory. In Wong Wing v. United States (1896), the Court ruled that the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause protects noncitizens from arbitrary detention or punishment.

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    Actually, a lot of them being kicked out now are being pulled from their court dates, so they are following due process.

    This scumbag should die in a jail cell.

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      Not to mention the ones they are simply cancelling their visas and other legal arrangements and then arresting and deporting. Steven Miller is white supremacist scum and should be tried for crimes against humanity.

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    Ah, the land of the free welcoming the tired, heartbroken and poor huddled masses yearning for that freedom?

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    Can’t stress this enough, but Stephen Miller is one of the shittiest humans alive. Has all the earmarks of an asshole young man who was shunned by all women, and he’s out for his revenge. What a twat.

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    This guy basically just said he doesn’t care what the constitution says, he’s going to do whatever he wants anyway.

    I sure with the idiots on the right would get riled up over literally anything besides the 2nd amendment.

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    I’m sick of people trying to gaslight us into thinking ICE is only going after illegal immigrants and that they just want people to follow legal processes to come in. They’re arresting people at courthouses, in the midst of following the legal process to immigrate

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      They’re also arresting Americans and then claiming afterwards that their birth certificates are fake.

      And people need to get this through their heads: If illegal immigrants have no right to due process, then NOBODY has the right to due process, because how are you going to prove you’re a citizen without due process?

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      I just saw an ad recruiting new ICE members. It was essentially just selling fear. These people are such cowards.

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      Isn’t the onus on the state to prove they are undocumented? That’s the charge yea?

      So…defense lawyer to 5-A, checkmate?

      This seems like something that would be thrown out before the envelope was even opened. Like AOL floppies on the judges docket.

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        You would be right, if the Republican administration actually followed rule of law. How many major court cases have they lost, yet continued doing that they were sued/charged over? I’ve lost count. The laws are not being Enforced, because the enforcement is the task of the Executive branch, i.e. the presidency and departments (FBI, NSA, DOD, DHS, etc). In previous administrations, the non partisan federal employees would enforce the law with either party in the Whitehouse, but with this current Republican administration and it’s purge of federal workforce and replacing non-partisan positions with political appointees, as explicitly called for in Project 2025.

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        So…defense lawyer to 5-A, checkmate?

        Ahh see, the defense lawyer can’t do anything if they literally cannot physically locate their client.

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    Every time I see that horrible fuck’s face I wish for horrible fates to befall him that I will not put in print.

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      I will put them in print. I hope he loses his favorite bath towels and has to dry off with the ones he would use for drying his hands after going to the bathroom if he actually washed his hands

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    You need due process to even know if they are illegal aliens. They just want to deport people without checking.