ICE Wants Power to Detain Immigrants for Months or Years Without Bond Hearings
www.americansagainstice.org
The Supreme Court will hear a case that could strip another layer of due process from immigration detention.

cross-posted from: https://infosec.pub/post/48421964

The Court has agreed to hear a Trump administration appeal involving lawful permanent residents who were detained for months without a chance to ask for release on bond. A lower court ruled that prolonged detention without bond hearings violated due process protections. The administration is now asking the Supreme Court to reverse that ruling.

This is not a technical court dispute for the people inside detention. A bond hearing can be the only chance to ask a judge to look at whether continued detention is justified. Without that hearing, ICE can keep someone locked up while the immigration case moves slowly through the system.

  • N0t_5ure@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    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.

        • cecilkorik@piefed.caEnglish
          4·
          2 months ago

          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.