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ICE Wants Power to Detain [lawful permanent residents] for Months or Years Without Bond Hearings
(www.americansagainstice.org)
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Here is what they aren't saying: If some people can be deprived of due process, there is no due process for anyone. The DUe PRocess clause prevents states from depriving "any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law." "Due process" simply means a fair hearing with fair procedures to challenge the claims against you. It is a foundational bulwark against tyranny, and has it's origins in the Magna Carta. If the government can snatch you up and detain you without a hearing, you no longer have due process.
Then I suppose it's time to start 2A-ing ICE agents on sight.
It was time all the way back in January.
It's been time for a long time now, the problem is we need to be able to organize a resistance, and they've disrupted any efforts at organization by the lower classes, pretending it was just about labor unions when really it's about our ability to unify ourselves with any legitimate shared identity or concern. Divide and conquer: we've been divided, and now we're being conquered. Our choices are basically to set aside our differences with our neighbors and unite again as "we the people", or die as economically and politically irrelevant serfs whose disorganized and frustrated attempts at resistance will be carefully, methodically and violently crushed by the boot of fascism as isolated uprisings.
you're 22years too late, but…