ACLU: Illegal Immigrants Deserve Their Day in Court
Posted on April 4, 2006
As the Senate Judiciary Committee met today to examine immigration, the American Civil Liberties Union urged lawmakers to reject two proposals that would deprive immigrants of their right to appeal and overburden the judicial system. The Judiciary Committee recently passed an immigration bill that does not include these two objectionable provisions, but lawmakers may yet seek to include them in the final measure.
“These proposed amendments pose serious problems, in effect barring the courthouse door for many immigrants who deserve their day in court,” said Caroline Fredrickson, Director of the ACLU Washington Legislative Office. “Too many provisions of the various immigration bills paint immigrants as the new scapegoats. Congress must approach the issue in a manner that upholds our commitment to our core American values.”
The two proposed changes to the legislation were included in Sections 701 and 707 of the “Comprehensive Immigration Reform Act of 2006,” but were not in the final version adopted by the committee. Both provisions would limit the effective right of immigrants to appeal adverse rulings on their cases.
The Uncooperative Blogger notes:
I watched the Senate Judiciary Committee meeting today on C-Span and they discussed the fact that our courts have become overwhelmed with illegal immigrants appealing their deportations under the guise of asylum. It was noted that many of the cases are frivolous merely to slow down the process of their deportation. If an illegal immigrant appeals, it can take up to two years to go through our overburdened court system which buys more time for the illegal immigrant to stay in this country.
Among many of the frivolous appeals was a Mexican illegal immigrant who claimed he should be granted asylum in our country because he would be persecuted in Mexico. His claim was that he hurt his elbow while working in America and he would not be able to perform manual labor in Mexico which would bring persecution from the Mexican government. When his case finally made it to court, it was proven that he was performing manual labor, building fences, currently in our country.
Over 85 percent of the cases brought before the appeals courts are thrown out for similar ridiculous claims. But, of course, the ACLU would be out of business without frivolous claims.
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The ACLU knows that our court system is already overburdened and if illegal immigrants are given their day in court, we might as well throw open the border.
If you are not in this country legally you should only be entitled to a ride home…..mexico doesn’t allow illegals in their country the right to go to court.
I wonder what part of “illegal” people don’t understand. Why is the ACLU the first to jump on the lawbreakers’ side of ANY crime? Why not defend the LIBERTIES of AMERICANS? Hey what a concept.
But instead, the only Americans they defend are criminals, atheists and people who want to twist the constitution to lean towards their “cause”.
And they’re the first ones to defend the “rights” of our enemies. But let MY liberties get trampled on by some criminal, atheist, or illegal immigrant, and who do I have to turn to?
No one.
They don’t need arrests. They need naturalizations. They’re here because we weren’t stringent on naturalization rules when they arrived. We are the ones who changed our minds and started calling them illegal. So we have to make naturalizations available to them, in kiosks, traveling shows, whatever. The real money drain is their American employers who get away with paying them below minimum wage.