Deportation
Deportation
I keep hearing people say that deporting violent criminals from other countries is a good idea that we should all accept. It is not, and the reasons are obvious. There are two questions: should we deport criminals already convicted and serving time, and should we deport criminals not yet convicted but with a history of violence. The first question is easily answered: no, because it is better to keep them in prison than release them into another country. If we do the latter, they are set free with little to no punishment; this is no deterrent to would-be foreign-born criminals. Also, they are then enabled to reenter the country, illegally, and commit more crimes. Also, they can commit crimes against Americans from their base in another country—as foreign crime gangs do. As to the latter question, we have the uncomfortable fact that we would be punishing people not convicted of any crime without due process, as well as the other objections; we don’t want to go down that road. What if it was suggested that we simply execute violent criminals from elsewhere and those we think may commit serious crimes in the future? I doubt that even the most hardline anti-crime types would be willing to go that far. Deporting criminals is actually being soft on crime and inviting further criminal activity. The best procedure is just to subject them to the usual judicial process we apply to home-grown criminals. Of course, we should do our best not to admit them into the country to begin with. It sounds tough to “kick out the illegal alien criminals”, but on reflection it is not smart.
An issue that underlies this that the government is deporting people who were neither convicted nor have a history of violence. It is lying when it claims otherwise. It is also violating the Constitution when it deports them without due process — without having to prove that they are criminals or have a history of violence. We don’t even reach the issue of whether the government should deport criminals or people with a history of violence.
Yes, and they don’t seem very concerned about that.
Do you suppose this policy has ‘Trump’ written all over it, or have the Republicans always had a drive to violent punishment? One can very easily advance a slippery slope argument. It seems a way of I think they call it punking the other side. The right views the other side, meaning the center/left as criminal. By taking welfare, by not making 500,000 a year, by having abortions or enjoying life. I don’t want to frolic in rudeness, but the other side, the Maggot Heads as a philosopher I know calls them are pretty crude.
Trump has taken it to a lawless extreme.
I’ve read articles and books by conservatives. It is natural for conservatives to turn into fascists. First, they have no ideals, they look down on ideals, conservatism is about authority and tradition, and they jump at the first chance to grab absolute power, it is no surprise Trump won over the conservatives as they have no ideals and what they always crave is power, they always wished they could be like Trump.
Trump is really a caricature of the Rand-type conservative with some mafia thrown in.