but, you call them "illegal aliens" when they've neverbeen arrested much less convicted of a damn thing
What kind of retarded thinking is that?
They cross our borders illegally they are criminals
They over stay their visas they are criminals
No sir, they absolutely are
NOT criminals. What's retarded in this country are stupid people who ignore the Constitution of the United States and some fundamental principles. I keep quoting Tom Paine, one of our country's founders. When it comes to anti-immigrants, they can't understand it. Let me repeat it, then I'll explain it to you:
"
An avidity to punish is always dangerous to liberty. It leads men to stretch, to misinterpret, and to misapply even the best of laws. He that would make his own liberty secure must guard even his enemy from oppression; for if he violates this duty he establishes a precedent that will reach to himself." A Dissertation on the First Principles of Government (1795)
The
FIRST misapplication of the law is that insist on calling undocumented foreigners "
illegal aliens" and assure us they are criminals and so forth. They take the entire concept of
innocent until proven guilty / presumption of innocence and toss it out the window.
When that precedent is used on them, they scratch their heads and if it happens to be them, they are really pissed with the LEO community. People are raging mad in the United States at the LEOs. How can they beat people in the streets and even shoot them without
due process?
The
real reason that stuff happens is that the anti-immigrant lobby and the Tea Party types envision a total
POLICE STATE for America. They love the idea of cops watching them 24 / 7 / 365. They like the idea of the pee test, blood test, driver's license, Socialist Security Number ...ooops "
Social Security Number," birth certificate, criminal background check, credit check, drones in the sky and zero constitutional protections against warrant-less search and seizures.
Under our constitutional / legal / dejure U.S. Constitution everybody is entitled to the
equal protection of the laws. See the 14th Amendment. IF a foreigner is a criminal absent due process then
EVERY AMERICAN IS GUILTY OF SOME KIND OF CRIME. A cop once told me that if you don't have a record, it's only because you haven't been caught yet.
I can thank people like you for this atmosphere of fear, paranoia, and what is little more than a National Socialist approach to the issues at hand... all which was a great deflection to keep from answering MY question.