Federal judges across America are scrambling to succeed in the mission where so many Democratic Senators and Congressmen failed: get El Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego Garcia released from custody and returned to his “home” in Maryland.
From The Hill newspaper,
Judge leans toward limiting Abrego Garcia deportation.
A different federal judge in Tennessee really, really, wants to let Abrego Garcia free, while he awaits trial on human smuggling charges. ICE really, really wants to pick up Mr. Abrego Garcia and ship him elsewhere.
If you are interested in some insight into this process (so much due process), as it happens, I spent this afternoon attending federal court in St. Paul, MN, learning about Minnesota Dad Ezequiel Rojas-Gasca, of parts of unknown. His case presents many of the same facts as his Maryland counterpart. Read my account here.
For my part, I believe that all illegal aliens should be deported, with no exception. None. Zero.
Others believe that there should be no deportations, whatsoever.
In between are those who say there can be deportations, but only in limited cases. But when you dig deeper you find that the population of the exceptions is the null set { }.
They say that you can’t deport someone for merely being an illegal alien, even a repeat one (which is a federal felony). Who can you deport? Someone who has committed another crime.
What kind of crime? It turns out is has to be a serious, violent felony, for which you’ve been convicted, and spent several decades in prison.
And then deportation? Don’t be ridiculous they’ve already paid their debt to society, so deportation represents some inhumane, extrajudicial punishment.
You can’t win.
