Does US immigration policy contribute to Constitutional violations?

[Postman]

When you don't know who is here, you don't know who to put under surveillance, thus everyone is under surveillance.

Or.

The above excuse is bogus because prior to 9/11 FBI field officers were reporting to Headquarters the (already discovered) hijackers wanting to know how to fly but not land jetliners.

Are they looking for terrorists or collecting data on all of us for some other yet to be disclosed reason?

[treestar]

1. Even Clinton signed draconian laws precluding judicial review

giving immigration agents unreviewable powers. It is easy to use aliens to get this kind of thing started, since it is easy to convince Americans that the basic right to justice is due only to them.

The people at the borders, and in the state department, can let in anyone they want to. Nothing makes them follow the law. Congress is OK with this.

In the US, there is at least a hearing, but it can be at the cost of lengthy detention. And the question of whether or not someone is "legal" or not is that always simple. People can have claims to a status under the law. There are also some decisions where even in the US, Congress has purported to give the executive unreviewable powers. Leaving an interesting hole for the executive to theoretically deport US citizens without any hearing, just by accusing them of violating certain sections of the immigration act, with no chance of a hearing to prove they are US citizens.

Oh, but the government wouldn't do that, would they? :sarcasm:

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