Non-profit Warrior (![[info]](http://p-stat.livejournal.com/img/userinfo.gif){kind=small} crankyliberal) wrote,@ 2008-01-28 09:37:00 |
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Hillary Clinton doesn't think I should have a job
because there shouldn't be judicial process for immigrants
"Anybody who committed a crime in this country or in the country they came from has to be deported immediately, with no legal process. They are immediately gone," Mrs. Clinton told a town hall meeting in Anderson, S.C., Thursday. On Wednesday, she told a crowd in North Bergen, N.J., that such criminals "absolutely" need to be deported. A day earlier, she told a rally in Salinas, Calif., that aliens with criminal records "should be deported, no questions asked."
Really, Hillary? Do you want to know how many Lawful Permanent Residents I've helped lately who were in proceedings for a single drug possession conviction? These people have been here for over 20 years in most cases, have families and jobs, and screwed up. One of them was a bit stressed out after surviving cancer and also having to take care of her mother who is suffering from cancer. So she did some drugs. Right now, they have a chance to prove that they deserve to stay because the positive equities outweigh the negative. Now, that's their only chance- if they ever screw up again, they're removed, no questions asked.
But you want to take that away? Take away their chance to prove their worth? A chance that people value so much they'll sit in detention for six months (not to mention the extra time if there is an appeal lodged- that means a year or more easily)even though many of them have never been in jail once?
Oh, and you want to deport the asylum seekers who have crimes? Are you saying you want to overturn the Convention Against Torture, a remedy founded in international law that may be availiable to ANYONE regardless of crime, provided they can prove to a judge that there is more than 50% chance that they will be TORTURED at the hands of their government? Almost nobody gets this remedy, and it doesn't even protect you from being deported to a third country- only from the US sending you to the country where the torture takes place. They may be taken back later if the conditions change. What I am trying to say is that it's hardly a free pass for the criminals.
Your HUSBAND is the one who already has made deportation automatic for so many people I see, and now you simply want to expand that group.
So if you're president, I should go look for a new job? Great, thanks for the advance warning.
because there shouldn't be judicial process for immigrants
"Anybody who committed a crime in this country or in the country they came from has to be deported immediately, with no legal process. They are immediately gone," Mrs. Clinton told a town hall meeting in Anderson, S.C., Thursday. On Wednesday, she told a crowd in North Bergen, N.J., that such criminals "absolutely" need to be deported. A day earlier, she told a rally in Salinas, Calif., that aliens with criminal records "should be deported, no questions asked."
Really, Hillary? Do you want to know how many Lawful Permanent Residents I've helped lately who were in proceedings for a single drug possession conviction? These people have been here for over 20 years in most cases, have families and jobs, and screwed up. One of them was a bit stressed out after surviving cancer and also having to take care of her mother who is suffering from cancer. So she did some drugs. Right now, they have a chance to prove that they deserve to stay because the positive equities outweigh the negative. Now, that's their only chance- if they ever screw up again, they're removed, no questions asked.
But you want to take that away? Take away their chance to prove their worth? A chance that people value so much they'll sit in detention for six months (not to mention the extra time if there is an appeal lodged- that means a year or more easily)even though many of them have never been in jail once?
Oh, and you want to deport the asylum seekers who have crimes? Are you saying you want to overturn the Convention Against Torture, a remedy founded in international law that may be availiable to ANYONE regardless of crime, provided they can prove to a judge that there is more than 50% chance that they will be TORTURED at the hands of their government? Almost nobody gets this remedy, and it doesn't even protect you from being deported to a third country- only from the US sending you to the country where the torture takes place. They may be taken back later if the conditions change. What I am trying to say is that it's hardly a free pass for the criminals.
Your HUSBAND is the one who already has made deportation automatic for so many people I see, and now you simply want to expand that group.
So if you're president, I should go look for a new job? Great, thanks for the advance warning.
