This was what Judge Millett was getting at today in the D.C. Circuit oral argument. If the government doesn't have to give you notice or a hearing before removing you from the country, what's to stop them from removing you - literally you, the person reading this - from the country tomorrow?
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Timothy Snyder
If you accept that non-citizens have no right to due process, you are accepting that citizens have no right to due process. All the government has to do is claim that you are not a citizen; without due process you have no chance to prove the contrary.
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Still, point taken.
They said, “They won’t just throw citizens out of this country or send them to prison without a trial!”
Well. We didn’t think they’d start deporting folks without due process!
QT of video. Listen for mention of the wife (who doesn't speak English)