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Trump: US can't give every person it wants to deport a trial (www.dw.com)

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US President Donald Trump said to give everyone a trial "would take, without exaggeration, 200 years." Lawyers for Venezuelan migrants have demanded 30 days' notice for migrants before deporting them.

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[–] BrikoX@lemmy.zip 67 points 2 days ago (2 children)

So in others words constitution is dead and buried.

[–] henfredemars@infosec.pub 27 points 2 days ago

It’s just a piece of paper. An idea. And if people don’t believe in this idea and won’t enforce it, then it is truly meaningless.

[–] Bloobish@hexbear.net 5 points 2 days ago

The constitution only applies to rich white people, for everyone else it's only a vaguely applicable piece of tissue paper