This Week in Trump Outrages: Habeas, Corruption and Dismantling the Research State

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By Mort Kondracke

Donald Trump says he “does not know” whether persons facing deportation must get “due process of law.” However, the US Constitution and Supreme Court are quite clear: they must. But the Trump administration has expelled hundreds (or perhaps thousands) without giving them any opportunity to contact a lawyer, much less a judge.

To top it off, Trump’s top domestic adviser, Stephen Miller, says the administration is considering canceling the constitutional right of habeas corpus, which guarantees detainees the ability to challenge their confinement. The Constitution says the provision can be suspended only in times of war or insurrection.

Though Trump said he’d concentrate on removing violent criminals, US citizens, legal residents, ailing children, and long-resident undocumented immigrants have been caught up in deportation raids. One US citizen family in Oklahoma was rousted from its home in the middle of the night by immigration agents, traumatized, forced outside in the rain and had its home torn apart, with their phones, laptops and life savings in cash seized—all in a case of mistaken identity.

Trump also has tried to end the Temporary Protective Status program and other humanitarian parole programs, putting 1.4 million refugees in danger of deportation to such violent or repressive countries as Afghanistan, Haiti, Cuba and Venezuela. Lower courts have blocked the administration, but it has appealed to the Supreme Court. Meanwhile, the administration has offered refugee status to white South Africans, especially Afrikaners. Sixty have been admitted, but 67,000 others have expressed interest in the program.

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