The Constitution guarantees due process rights for everyone in the United States, regardless of citizenship status, but as part of their ongoing effort to defend President Donald Trump’s mass deportations, right-wing media have repeatedly and wrongly insisted that immigrants are excluded from this constitutional protection.Some right-wing media figures have alleged only "nut jobs" believe undocumented immigrants deserve due process, and some have claimed that even legal immigrants "have no rights at all." Others on the right acknowledged that migrants have rights but cheered at the prospect of taking them away, lamenting that constitutionally enshrined rights like due process and habeas corpus were slowing down mass deportations.
  • TommySoda@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 day ago

    They’re trying to normalize the dehumanization of immigrants. And they’ve already started with the homeless, mentally ill, and LGBTQ+. And they do this because as soon as people stop treating them like people they can do whatever the fuck they want without any backlash. It’s how you end up with the situation in Gaza where the entire IDF can feel comfortable murdering starving children.

    It’s always the same story. We have to defend ourselves from the plague of homeless people. We have to defend ourselves from trans women in our bathrooms. We have to defend ourselves from the mentally deranged. We have to defend ourselves from the invasion of immigrants. And just in case you have forgotten, Israel has the right to defend itself.