Trump’s military deployment in Los Angeles has much to do with the rule of law

From Robert GreenCalmness

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May be tempting to seek in Donald Trump’s invasion of Los AngelesSome evidence that he is simply trying to protect a significant one if it is not widely understood a fundamental American principle: the rule of law.

After all, it is a violation of the law for people to enter the United States without permission or verification or to overdo it. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama defended the rule of law when they reinforced deportations and border arrests that reached a peak at Obama in 2012.S

Why was it good when they did, but not Trump?

But the analogies are weak and the equivalence false. Angry protests against immigration attacks in Los Angeles, arrests, imprisonment and impending deportation come after months of repeated attempts for the Trump administration to delay the most basic constitutional protection of people to deportation. A wide range of residents, some with student visas, some with pending court proceedingswere caught off the street or from their jobs or homes by federal agents who often fail to identify or the reasons for their actionsS

Some of the goals were Sent to foreign countries with which they do not have a family or linguistic relationship, such as South Sudan or Libya. Some seem to have been secretly transported to various federal vessels to avoid orders to prevent them. Some have been denied access to a family or legal council. Some were only aimed at expressing their opinion. Some claim each other, without proof, belong to bands.

In many cases, if not most, the goals were denied the most basic elements of a proper process: the right to know the accusations against them and to meet and present evidence to a neutral magistrate with the power to block the actions of the government. It is good to claim that members of certain bands, for example, are deportable if they are not US citizens but who assess the government’s allegations that some tattoo is irrefutable proof of a band membership? Where does one present evidence that government claims are wrong or trump?

Without a proper process, none of us is safe from the pursuit of the government. Any citizen could be accused of being neglected in the United States illegally and would be powerless to argue for another.

Trump claims that Allow a proper process of its deportation goals It would take too much time. His position is inherently hostile to the rule of law and would replace the disgusting anti -American principle: Autocrat rule.

Previous Presidents, deported people who do not meet the requirements, did it without having the Marines, federalized by the National Guard, threatening to arrest California GovernorKlindven hardworking ambitious Americans such as invaders and occupiers and a gratuitous stimulating violence and chaos in immigrant cities. They impose the law with skills and discretion, acknowledging the difference between migrants that help build the nation, just as generations of their documented and undocumented predecessors, and those who exploit and harm others. They comply with the rule of law.

For Trump, the rule of law is a support that must be unfolded or discarded for political reasons to satisfy political and personal goals.

It seems that he is trying to return and replay the catastrophic (for him) summer 2020, when protests against George Floy’s police murder threaten his Presidency. He was considering federalizing units of the National Guard and sends military to Democrats, including Portland, Seattle, Minneapolis and Washington, Colombia County, and he intended to refer to the Uprising Act to allow federal troops to arrest. But the cooler heads in his administration expelled him from him.

The cool heads have already been expelled from the White House and replaced by HotHeads as the Minister of Homeland Security Christie Noem, who told Los Angeles: “They are not an immigrant city, they are a city of criminals.” And the Deputy Chief of White House Staff Stephen Miller, who called the home -docked immigrants “invaders” and those who protested against their arrests “rebels”.

The choice of word is remarkable after a series of judgments correctly Rejection of administration’s claims The fact that undocumented immigrants are an “invasion” of this kind, which will allow Trump to stop the fundamental American freedoms and to close people based on his decrees, not the proper justice.

And “rebels?” Trump’s respect for the rule of law is so small that he called January 6, 2021, an attack on the Capitol, which he expressed, the “day of love” and pardon all 1500 rebelsIncluding those who attacked police officers trying to protect the building and employees who occupied it.

This is the background of immigration attacks in Los Angeles and demonstrations against them. Protesters do not stand against the rule of law. They stand against his screaming and frightening violation.

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Federalization of the National Guard over the objection of governor was rare and had previously been used to protect civil rights and human dignity, not to threaten them, as Trump’s actions in Los Angeles do. The last case was when President Lindon B. Johnson Federalizes the National Guard in Alabama in 1965 over the governor’s head to protect the marches between Selma and Montgomery as they requested their country to comply with the right of black citizens to vote. Previously, President Dwight Eisenhower Federalized the National Guard in Arkansas in 1957, displacing the previous role of the soldiers-to block nine black students to fully visit the white rock Central High School-instead of imposing the order for the desegregation.

Arkansas Governor Orval Faub was delighted, claiming that his country had become a “occupied territory”.

“In the name of God we all worship, in the name of freedom, we are so expensive, in the name of the decency that we all appreciate, what is happening in America?” he asked.

It was a rhetorical question, but there was a ready answer: what was happening was the long delayed expansion of freedom, justice and the rule of the law for all Americans.

Trump claims his arrests in Los Angeles (and New York, Texas and other places When the circles were greeted with angry protests) are also in the name of freedom, justice and the law, but his terrible experience shows his deep neglect of these principles and the complete failure of each parallel with previous presidential commandments.

Still, the Marines are already located in Los Angeles, as if they were occupied territory. In the name of God, freedom and decency, what have we allowed to happen to America?

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