Democratic Congressman Says Criminal Migrants Should Be Imprisoned, Not Deported, "Lock Them Up Forever"
Opinion by Aurora DeStefano • 11h
Democrats standing up for due process in deportation cases are being excoriated by Republicans as “soft on crime” as Trump administration deportation efforts ramp up.
In cases like that of “mistakenly” deported Kilmar Abrego Garcia, Democrats find themselves in a political dilemma: they are portrayed by MAGA loyalists as defending gang members and criminals (both of which the Trump administration says Garcia is) when they are more precisely trying to defend the right to due process, even for people with checkered backgrounds.
The defense of the rights of Garcia, who the Trump administration sent from the U.S. to a prison in El Salvador, and other deportees is rendered by Democrats on the grounds that to neglect their right to due process is to enable a slippery slope that puts any U.S. resident or citizen at risk of deportation without a hearing.
Judges across the country have raised similar objections to the deportation process, including a Boston judge whose injunction against the immediate deportation of some Trump administration ICE targets is being challenged by the Department of Justice and skewered by Trump policy guru Stephen Miller.
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