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snot

(11,061 posts)
Sun May 25, 2025, 02:30 PM 3 hrs ago

Deals with Other Countries to Hold "Illegal" Immigrants

Even if due process is afforded, how is sending people fleeing their own countries to another country likely to lock them up forever in terrible conditions not "cruel and unusual punishment"? Does the 8th Amendment not protect non-citizens?

This practice is quite possibly more dehumanizing to those who abet or acquiesce in it than it is to its victims.

A list of countries that have entered or are considering agreements to hold our "illegal" immigrants can be found at https://www.zerohedge.com/geopolitical/here-are-countries-have-reached-or-are-considering-deportation-deals-us .

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Deals with Other Countries to Hold "Illegal" Immigrants (Original Post) snot 3 hrs ago OP
EXACTLY!! Nictuku 3 hrs ago #1
And the news media keep calling it. "a crack down on immigration" or "deporting people". It's really sentencing them to Walleye 2 hrs ago #2
Habeas Corpus Act of 1679 struggle4progress 59 min ago #3

Walleye

(40,565 posts)
2. And the news media keep calling it. "a crack down on immigration" or "deporting people". It's really sentencing them to
Sun May 25, 2025, 03:03 PM
2 hrs ago

A life sentence in a horrible prison. With no recourse. It’s not deporting or cracking down on immigration for God’s sake.

struggle4progress

(123,252 posts)
3. Habeas Corpus Act of 1679
Sun May 25, 2025, 05:03 PM
59 min ago

... An Act for the better securing the Liberty of the Subject, and for Prevention of Imprisonment beyond the Seas ...

The Habeas Corpus Act 1679 (31 Cha. 2. c. 2) is an act of the Parliament of England passed during the reign of King Charles II ... The act is often wrongly described as the origin of the writ of habeas corpus. But the writ of habeas corpus had existed in various forms in England for at least five centuries before and is thought to have originated in the Assize of Clarendon of 1166. It was guaranteed, but not created, by Magna Carta in 1215, whose article 39 reads (translated from Latin): "No freeman shall be taken or imprisoned or disseised or exiled or in any way destroyed, nor will we go upon him nor will we send upon him except upon the lawful judgement of his peers or the law of the land." The Act of 1679 followed an earlier Habeas Corpus Act 1640, which established that the command of the king or the Privy Council was no answer to a petition of habeas corpus ...

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Habeas_Corpus_Act_1679

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