Due Process

There has been a lot of talk about “due process” recently. According to some, the United States of America is required to give due process to every single illegal alien in our country before we are allowed to deport them to their country of origin. That was the biggest issue regarding the Trump Administration’s deportation of El Salvador citizen and MS-13 gang member, Kilmar Abrego Garcia earlier this month. They claim that he was not given due process. When Senator Chris Van Hollen travelled down to El Salvador to visit the MS-13 gang member last week, he defended his visit with the known vicious gang member by saying, “I am not defending the man. I’m defending the rights of this man to due process.”

10 million illegal aliens decided to enter our country during Joe Biden’s presidency without due process, and now those same 10 million illegal aliens are claiming that we cannot deport them without due process. Why? Why can’t we? Illegals have no legal right to due process before being deported because they are not in this country legally. They choose to circumvent the legal system by coming across the border illegally. They did not come to a recognized point of entry and claim asylum. They intentionally avoided the legal process of entry, so they have no grounds to demand a legal process before deportation. The only due process that these people deserve is – you’re not a citizen, you came here illegally, get out.  

Nobody who is claiming that these illegals deserve due process actually cares about due process. That is the entire point. There are not enough judges, not enough courts, not enough hours in the day, not enough days in a year to give every illegal alien due process. We would have to provide 7,350 formal court hearings to these illegals every single day, including weekends and holidays, from today until the last day of Donald Trump’s presidency to process just the illegal aliens who came here under Biden. The entire system would be overwhelmed to the point that it would collapse. And that is the whole point.

The entire strategy of the pro-open border, pro-illegal alien crowd is to have the illegals avoid due process. They are banking on the fact that we do not have the resources to give all of the illegals due process, so we will eventually grant them all amnesty unilaterally. And that is why the Biden Administration opened the southern border and allowed 10 million illegals to flood our system – to avoid due process. So, the continual demand for due process for every illegal alien is an attempt to have the illegals avoid due process.

None of these people actually care about the principle of due process in the first place. Everyone who is demanding due process for every illegal immigrant, were all silent when, on September 11, 2011, President Barack Obama ordered a drone strike that killed United States citizens, Anwar Al-Awlaki and Samir Khan. The Obama Administration claimed that these men had terrorist ties which they most likely did, but they were still United States citizens who were not given due process before they were killed by the United States government. At the moment they were killed, they were not on the field of battle or threatening anyone. Obama’s order was a direct violation of these US citizens constitutional rights to due process under the 5th and 14th amendment. And no one said a word about due process then.

None of these people cared about due process for the January 6 rioters who were arrested and thrown into the squalid DC jails and sat there for over a year without a hearing, without due process. No one who is demanding for due process for non-citizen illegal aliens now, cared about due process for American citizens then. This is typical of the Democrats. They only care about a principal when it serves their agenda, and when the same principle works against their agenda, they completely ignore it or willfully violate it. “Due process” is like every other buzz word or phrase that the Democrats love to throw around like, racist, fascists, Nazi, Hitler, misogynist, homophobic, democracy, etc. The Democrats do not actually understand or care to adhere to the true meaning of the words. Those words are malleable, and the definitions can be completely inverted to serve the purposes of the Democrats or to be weaponized against their opponents.

We saw that last week in Wisconsin when Milwaukee County Circuit Court Judge Hannah Dugan obstructed ICE officials attempt to arrest a known criminal illegal alien, Eduardo Flores-Ruiz, by helping him and his lawyer escape out of her courtroom through the jury door. This illegal alien that she helped to escape, has “a laundry list of violent criminal charges including strangulation and suffocation, battery, and domestic abuse,” and had entered the United States illegally twice.  The judge has been arrested and charged by the FBI, and now, the Democrats are crying foul. Senator Amy Klobuchar tweeted that her arrest “threatens the rule of law.” Senator Bernie Sanders called it “growing authoritarianism.” But a judge who takes the law into her own hands, is the one who threatens the rule of law and is authoritarian. The due process for anyone who obstructs federal law enforcement by aiding and abetting a criminal alien is arrest and federal charges. That’s due process. The same people who demand due process for every illegal alien want a judge who violates federal law to be above the law and avoid due process. 

What has been forgotten in the entire due process debate has been the due process for the American citizens. Don’t American citizens have the right to know that the illegal aliens that are being given legal status and will be living in their neighborhoods, have been vetted properly to make sure that they are not criminals or gang members or cartel smugglers? That due process is vitally important to the safety and security of every American. Our country became more violent and more crime and drug infested because the Biden Administration did not care about due process when letting these aliens into our country. But the open borders crowd wants to give those same people citizenship without due process because they don’t care if these illegal aliens are violent criminals or not. They only care that they will vote for them, and if they bring more crime and violence to our country, that is better for the Democrats because it gives them a reason to seize more and more power from the citizens which is what the Democrats are all about, anyway.

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Mr. Garrett is a graduate of Princeton University, and a former NFL player, coach, and executive. He has been a contributor to the website Real Clear Politics. He has recently published his first novel, No Wind.