A US citizen was held illegally for 27 days without access to a lawyer, without being allowed to make a phone call, without enough food to eat, and without access to a shower. Told he had no rights. Everyone has the right of habeus corpus. The authorities cannot lawfully detain anyone without a court order, you must be brought in front of a judge and given an opportunity to defend yourself from arbitrary detention. Starvation (he lost a pound of weight a day) and abuse (23 days without access to a shower, verbal abuse, threats) are cruel and unusual punishment. Also very unconstitutional.. This was not a "mistake", this is the way they are intentionally treating people. It is intentional denial of basic constitutional rights everyone in the country has--citizen or not. The constitutional requirement to bring those detained before a judge within days of arrest exists just so this kind of injustice can be thwarted. ICE and CBP are operating entirely outside the law and need to be disbanded. Their duties can be transferred to other agencies until a lawful border agency can be established. https://www.nytimes.com/2019/07/23/us/texas-citizen-detained-immigration.html
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Devil is in the details. And I quote. He brought with him a tourist visa issued by Mexico that stated that he had been born in that country, his lawyer said.
Irrelevant. The right to habeus corpus is not abridged for any reason. They had a duty to bring him to a judge and they failed. Had that done so his citizenship would have been established rapidly and he would have been released in a timely fashion The right to be free from cruel and unusual punishment also exists even for illegal immigrants. That right was flat out ignored. You've given probable cause for detaining him initially while his document was checked, but that is not an excuse for blatantly unconstitutional fuckery. Arbitrary detention is illegal. Cruel and unusual punishment is illegal. If the police do not bring to to court in a timely fashion they should release you, regardless of what you are suspected of. The government does NOT have a right to detain anyone in any capacity for any length of time and for any reason unless it can detain them lawfully under the Constitution
Agree.
Break up ICE and CBP and open the damn border!
how about no and say we didnt
How about yes.
Op thinks you have Constitutional rights at the border 🙄.
He wasn't at the border. He was a hundred miles from it when he was arrested, and he had not crossed it. This is arbitrary and unlawful detention of a US citizen inside the United States.
From the far left ACLU: https://www.aclu.org/other/constitution-100-mile-border-zone
You lost me at disband CBP/ICE.
It's the only solution to such institutionalized violation of the Constitution
I'm sorry but your statements indicate you have no respect for the institutions who are there to protect YOU. Sure there will be bad apples and instances in which major screw up happens. There will be other ways to contest this. Maybe you've lived in this country all your life and dont appreciate the numerous ways these institutions protect YOU.
Democrats should probably provide more border protection funding.
The DEA is also pretty notorious for abusing suspects IIRC. The problem is that there's a 100mi "Constitution-free zone" around US borders and shores that contain ~60% of the population. Neither party has seriously tried to address it so far.
Yeah, there was another tin foil soldier here claiming the other day there are thousands of such cases. 🤦
Right... once i saw a crooked cop in the street. I demand all police force to be disbanded, too. But emotions 🙄
This isn't "a crooked cop", this is the systematic, unlawful way these agencies are treating EVERYONE. It's only making the news in this case because they did it to an American citizen. Had he been an illegal you would be defending their unconstitutional behavior, which is clearly by design.
Fake news with half side of the story. Next