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> Do we need a jury trial with proof beyond a reasonable doubt?

Before sending someone to an overseas slave camp no one has ever been released from? Uh, yes.



He’s an El Salvadoran citizen being sent to El Salvador. Any grievance he has he can take up with his own country.


> He’s an El Salvadoran citizen being sent to El Salvador…

... in direct violation of an American judge's legal order. Even the White House admits this!

We're just gonna keep glossing over that fact, eh?


You missed the point. Imagine we want to deport a British citizen to Britain for felony fraud committed in US, and it just so happens that the same person is wanted in Britain for a completely different crime, say burglary. We know that if we deport him, he will be jailed and prosecuted in Britain according to British laws. Should this prevent us from deporting him? Is him being considered a criminal in his own country somehow protecting him from deportation there? Are we only allowed to deport non-criminals, and must keep foreign criminals in US, lest they get thrown in jail in the countries we deport them to?


We have long avoided extradition to countries where someone risks torture or death disproportionate to their crimes.

https://www.state.gov/extraditions

> In determining whether a fugitive should be extradited, the Secretary may consider issues properly raised before the extradition court or a habeas court as well as any humanitarian or other considerations for or against surrender, including whether surrender may violate the United States’ obligations under the Convention Against Torture. See 22 C.F.R. 95.1 et seq.

Hence the judge’s ruling, and the Administration’s admission of error.


That’s extradition, it’s a completely different process, unrelated to deporting illegal aliens. Moreover, I specifically gave Britain as an example target, and these concerns are not relevant for extraditing to Britain.


We don’t deport some people to their home countries for the same reasons, and the same convention on torture that forbids it.

The UK, incidentally, does the same for us if sending someone here would result in the death penalty.




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