this post was submitted on 22 Apr 2025
347 points (99.2% liked)

United States | News & Politics

2789 readers
1192 users here now

Welcome to !usa@midwest.social, where you can share and converse about the different things happening all over/about the United States.

If you’re interested in participating, please subscribe.

Rules

Be respectful and civil. No racism/bigotry/hateful speech.

Post anything related to the United States.

founded 2 years ago
MODERATORS
you are viewing a single comment's thread
view the rest of the comments
[–] CidVicious@sh.itjust.works 6 points 1 day ago (2 children)

I would tend to agree that it kind of contradicts the whole "all men are created equal" thing if you decide that US citizens are worthy of certain human rights but non-citizens aren't. In fact referring to them as "inalienable" means that they have those rights whether the government recognizes them or not. But I'm also not a lawyer.

Correct. The issue, of course, is that without due process, anyone can be accused of being here illegally and deported if you can't get time in front of a judge to show documents and prove your case.

This is why citizens and non-citizens are paired up in regards to that law.

It's a catch 22 otherwise.

[–] SmackemWittadic@lemmy.world 2 points 1 day ago

Yeah I only know this from some legal eagle stuff, IANAL