A new policy expanding immigration agents' ability to summarily eject some migrants from the country undercuts due process and risks abuses, writes The Times Editorial Board. (via latimesopinion)
of the new rule by the American Immigration Council, an immigrant advocacy group, immigration officers have long been allowed by law and regulation to order the removal from the United States of any non-citizen at the border who lacks proper documents, as well as any undocumented migrant who has been in the U.S. for 14 days or less and is encountered within 100 miles of the border.
The failures of the U.S. immigration system long predate the fiascoes of the current administration, but President Trump’s special animus toward immigrants — and the policies concocted by the hard-liners surrounding him — has pushed enforcement over the line separating reasonable actions from immoral ones, especially in a nation whose very birth was predicated upon immigration.
Yes, the government has a right and a duty to protect its borders and to control who gets to enter and, more profoundly, who gets to become an American citizen. But that does not justify denying due process to asylum seekers or detaining American citizens. Hard-liners argue that people living in the U.S. without permission have broken the law and should be removed. And it’s true that many ought to be — particularly those who have been convicted of violent acts and other criminal transgressions. But the expanded expedited removal power targets people indiscriminately, including those with the clear right to request asylum or to make other arguments in American immigration courts.
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