Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.
Federal law states that the United States shall not “expel, extradite, or otherwise effect the involuntary return of any person to a country in which there are substantial grounds for believing the person would be in danger of being subjected to torture.” This law implements a treaty, known as the Convention Against Torture, which the United States ratified more than three decades ago.
Federal regulations, moreover, provide that even after an immigration judge has determined that a noncitizen may be deported to another country, that judge’s order “shall not be executed in circumstances that would violate Article 3 of the United Nations Convention Against Torture.” And those regulations also establish a process that immigrants can use to raise concerns with an immigration judge that they may be tortured if sent to a specific country.
The Trump administration, however, claims it has discovered a loophole that renders all of these legal protections worthless, and is now asking the Supreme Court to explicitly give it the authority to make use of that loophole in order to enact its immigration policies.
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Holy shit
We should have Trump dragged through the streets by a Tesla.
I would suggest a Swasty-truck, but they keep breaking down
If only the US citizens weren’t fascists themselves.
I’m not
There are at least two of us then. Makes me feel a little better.
I’m not either!
Trump’s lawyers claim they’ve found a loophole that will allow Trump to ship immigrants overseas to be tortured.
Legal or not, why are you looking for excuses to torture people?
According to President Donald Trump’s lawyers, the administration can simply wait until after an immigration judge has conducted the proceeding that ordinarily would determine whether a particular noncitizen may be deported to a particular country, and then, if that noncitizen is allowed to be deported, announce that the immigrant will be deported to some previously unmentioned country — even if that immigrant reasonably fears they will be tortured in that nation.
Shit. That is going to work. The SCOTUS will want to suck Trumps balls a little after telling him “no” 5-6 times … to make it up to him. I bet they are going to pass this.
The fact that the riots have only just started, and for something that has been going on for months, says a lot about the citizens of the US. I have no faith in any of you.
We’re so fucked.
I’d be happy if he got his wish and then magically disappeared and we heard rumors of him being waterboarded for fun. I’d do it myself.
Not before me you don’t!
See, this is why gwb and his cronies should have been prosecuted.
Instead, centrists were delighted when harris got dick cheney’s endorsement, and were upset when gwb declined to endorse.
Weird, why would he want to do that.
its not like they dont do it anyways, as long as it isnt leaked by people like snowden and Manning.
Maybe they want to talk about it
Enough fucking around. CWII now.
yeah. The civil war is starting.
As long as the fascist fuck gets to test it out first…
