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Cold War Spook

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4. Legal and illegal immigrants

Reply to Eugene (Original post)

Mon Oct 2, 2017, 08:10 PM

Oct 2017

are protected by the Constitution. They have a right to their day in court. Since there are less than 800 immigration judges and already a backlog of over 500,000 cases, it can take years to deport some of these people.

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Supreme Court mulls parameters for deporting immigrant felons [View all] Eugene Oct 2017 OP

So now we have legal non-citizen immigrants that Trumptonia can deport at their discretion... iluvtennis Oct 2017 #1

Crime of Violence seems pretty simple. nycbos Oct 2017 #2

Encouraging that the Supreme Court is actually taking time to consider it. AtheistCrusader Oct 2017 #3

Legal and illegal immigrants Cold War Spook Oct 2017 #4

IMO, burglary is a serious enough crime to warrant deportation after serving your time. Calista241 Oct 2017 #5