cross-posted from: https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/36009271
Texas Land Commissioner Dawn Buckingham said a facility built on this farmland recently bought by Texas will be the final stop for processing migrants before deportation.
She also promised more Texas land for mass deportation: “The new project that the General Land Office is going to bargain that I have created is the Jocelyn Initiative, in which we will locate appropriate land under my jurisdiction to lease for the construction of violent criminal deportation facilities.”
They won’t. It will defeat their case if they do:
They are arguing that immigrants are not “subject to the laws of the United States”, which basically means they can be treated as enemy combatants or POWs.
But they can’t be prosecuted for crimes, let alone convicted.
It doesn’t seem that Dawn Buckingham got the memo, but these facilities can’t be for “violent criminal deportation”, as “violent criminals” are subject to the jurisdiction of the United States.
These facilities have to be for “repatriating captured enemy combatants to their nation of origin”.
Conviction is the easy part.
No they’ll argue they’re subject to the laws but not the protection under law as there’s already precedent for that. I think people forgot how industrialized we’ve made racism, this is just making back on ole reliable.
14th amendment:
If they make the argument you just made, they kill their argument against birthright citizenship.
Jurisdiction can mean power over it doesn’t actually imply protection from, we have other amendments for that. They’ll argue some limited wording in the constitution and the 4th, 13th, and 14th amendments allows for illegals to not fall under the umbrella of constitutional protections.
It’s a bad argument sure, but they don’t generally have good arguments they just have 98% of government under their control and a rabid fan base. While it shouldn’t be a winning argument it probably will be in this regime.