tequila4kapp said:
sycasey said:
tequila4kapp said:
sycasey said:
tequila4kapp said:
sycasey said:
tequila4kapp said:
I believe Trump's EO says citizens and legal residents are not subject to deportation. If any of them were deported they should have causes of action.
"Legal residents" as in what? Green card holders? Those with visas? They are already having those canceled and being swept up anyway.
Those are different cases under a completely different statutory authority.
Okay, but if Trump's EO says those people are not subject to deportation then why are they doing it?
We may be in a cross talk situation.
Gang / terrorist cases - I think I recall that citizens aren't subject to the order. If citizens have been deported they should have a prima facia cause of action.
Student Visa cases - not aware that citizenship could be an issue because a citizen wouldn't need a student visa.
Your words:
"I believe Trump's EO says citizens and legal residents are not subject to deportation. If any of them were deported they should have causes of action."
What is a legal resident?
Those were my words trying to recount what I read about the order on the gang / terrorists. Probably bad choice of words. I don't really the exact language that was used … I intended it to mean non-citizens who had some legal right to be here.
Are those not green card and visa holders? Who else would be a non-citizen with a legal right to be here?
See, this is the point I'm trying to make. In order to justify all of this without just saying, "I don't care, I just want the immigrants out," you have to argue yourself into knots like this. And that's because that is what the Trump administration really believes and what they are trying to do. Just get the immigrants out, and we don't care who we hurt.
If you support this, then just own it. If not . . . don't defend it.