A WSJ investigation tracked the U.S. citizens caught in the crosshairs of an aggressive government campaign to detain and demonize dissenters

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[–] 49 points 8 months ago* (last edited 8 months ago) (7 children)

Oh, and you don't get a chance to prove your innocence. It's purely just ICE points a finger at you and you go to a gulag. Or worse. Ask Alex Pretty or Renee Good or Ruben Ray Martinez. Your citizenship doesn't matter. Your skin color doesn't really matter.

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  • [–] 7 points 8 months ago (1 child)

    you don’t get a chance to prove your innocenc

    The law doesn't require you to prove your innocence. It's up to the prosecution to prove otherwise. Any system that operates otherwise does so in violation of the constitution.

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  • [–] 3 points 8 months ago

    And?

    The whole reason that habeus is the first requirement of the law is without a right to trial, what the law says doesn't matter. It doesn't matter if ICE has no right to jail you if nobody is stopping them.

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  • [+] [S] -7 points 8 months ago (4 children)

    For US citizens, that's not so true. People do seem to be getting no-bills from grand juries and acquitted at trial.

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  • [–] 33 points 8 months ago (3 children)

    The problem will be getting a trial. Theres been several stories of people getting deported hours after being whisked away because ICE didnt want a judge to step in

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  • [–] [S] -5 points 8 months ago (2 children)

    Always been a risk with ICE and the Border Patrol. About 1% of deportations have long been of US citizens. You need to get a friend to bring your proof of citizenship and try repeatedly to come home if that happens. A lawyer helps too.

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