Why does it matter if illegal criminals get due process?

[missindiana93]

It's stupid. For rapists, murderers, thugs, violent people in our communities. American citizens lives dont matter anymore now.

[Snakeyes7]

I think measures should be taken to not accidentally deport someone who isn't an illegal but that doesn't require a long process like a trial by jury does.

Otherwise I agree. Illegals should not get the same protections that actual citizens or those who are on that path get. It's a waste of resources because they are not even supposed to be here in the first place.

[Anonymous]

If your crime is just being an undocumented immigrant, you should just be deported immediately. If you're an undocumented immigrant that commits a serious crime, you should get due process, stand trial, and if guilty do your prison time in america. After that then be deported.

[Syntosi]

First of all, its a fundamental part of the constitution.

Secondly, if they dont get due process, then nobody gets due process.

Let me explain. If the government is allowed to ignore due process for any group of people then that means there will be no scrutiny or oversight over what they are doing. The government can literally just do anything. In other words, if they make a "mistake" then there is nothing that stops them or punishes them and they can continue to make the same "mistake" forever.

Like, for the sake of argument, "mistake" Jews for El Salvadorian Tren De Aragua gang members which USA has designated as "foreign terrorists" and use that to suspend due process. By going above the law they can do anything they want with these people such as send the military to round them up and bring them to concentration camps and gas them to death. If someone points out that the Jews were in fact NOT Tren De Aragua members then they could just say "whopsie doodle, silly me" while sweeping up the ashes or just say that they dont even know what you are talking about. They are not compelled to do anything about it and you got no right to stop them.

And once they are done gassing all the Jews they could just move on to whatever the next group they would like to exterminate. Because again, it does not matter what is true or not if you dont have the due process to protect yourself. Either everyone gets due process, or nobody does. Pick what world you want to live in I suppose.

[Spencer10]

Who judges who is a criminal? The number of people wrongfully convicted of a crime is surprisingly high. Approximately 1 to 2 people out of 20. The system is designed to prevent that from happening as much as possible. Pretty sure if you where accused of a crime you did not do you would scream for your due process pretty quickly.

[Kaneki05]

No due process is idiotic, means you can be arrested too then and sent away with claims well we never bothered to check if you were illegal or not just cause we already thought you were... and no due process was needed.