Vice President J.D. Vance is only the latest to indicate he sees due process, as guaranteed in the Constitution, as an unnecessary impediment to the administration’s goals.
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PresidentDonaldTrumphascrackeddownonimmigrationinhissecondterm,deportingundocumentedmigrantsandperhapscitizensnext.
Intheprocess,membersofTrump’sadministrationhavedemonstratedanoverthostilitytobasicrightsofdueprocess.
OnMarch12,agentswithImmigrationandCustomsEnforcement(ICE)arrestedKilmarAbregoGarcia,anundocumentedimmigrantfromElSalvador.Threedayslater,thegovernmentdeportedhimbacktoElSalvadortobeheldintheTerrorismConfinementCenter(CECOT),anovercrowdedanddangerousmega-prisonwherethecountry’spresidentofferedtowarehousedeporteesfromtheU.S.
Thereismuchtoopposeinthataction,perhapsmostofallthatAbregoGarcia—whohadpreviouslybeengrantedareprievefromdeportation—wasdeniedanysemblanceofdueprocesswhengovernmentagentsgrabbedhimup,toldhimhisprotectedstatushadbeenrevoked,andshuffledhimoutofthecountry,allwithinthespanofalongweeken
