{"id":9942,"date":"2009-04-21T11:32:53","date_gmt":"2009-04-21T16:32:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=9942"},"modified":"2009-04-21T11:35:26","modified_gmt":"2009-04-21T16:35:26","slug":"want-to-know-where-napolitano-got-the-fuzzy-law-on-immigration","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9942","title":{"rendered":"Want to know where Napolitano got the fuzzy law on immigration?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/michellemalkin.com\/2009\/04\/21\/janet-napolitano-said-what\/\">Go over and read Ms. Malkin first<\/a>, and <a href=\"http:\/\/hotair.com\/archives\/2009\/04\/21\/shouldnt-a-dhs-secretary-know-that-illegal-immigration-is-a-crime\/\">then HotAir<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Per Naps on CNN:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>And yes, when we find illegal workers, yes, appropriate action, some of which is criminal, most of that is civil, because crossing the border is not a crime per se. It is civil. But anyway, going after those as well.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wonder where she is getting that logic?  How about MALDEF, and like groups that apparently worked up this bit of legal asshattery.  Remember I talked about the SPLC nonsense about The American Legion, well, MALDEF was part of it to, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.truthinimmigration.org\/Files\/PDF\/Setting_the_Record_Straight.pdf\">here is the pertinent section in question, from Page 6<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Unauthorized entries are violations of the Immigration and Nationality Act (INA), but immigration proceedings are civil, not criminal, in nature. A person who enters the United States without properly being admitted is inadmissible under the INA and is therefore removable.8 Also, a person who has been admitted into the United States but fails to maintain the condition of admission is removable.9 A person in either case will then be placed in \u201c[d]eportation proceedings [which are] purely civil actions to determine eligibility to remain in this country, not to punish an unlawful entry.\u201d10<\/p>\n<p>Notably, individuals in deportation proceedings are not afforded the same legal protections applicable in a criminal context.11 While it is the obligation of the immigration judge to advise a person of their right to representation, unlike criminal proceedings, their right to counsel comes at no expense to the government.12 The Supreme Court has ruled that courts are required, under the 6th Amendment of the Constitution, to provide counsel only in criminal cases for defendants unable to afford their own attorneys, not civil immigration proceedings.13 This is one critical example that differentiates immigrants in deportation proceedings from actual criminals.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, the exclusionary rule, a legal principle stemming from the U.S. Constitution which provides that unlawfully obtained evidence is excludable in criminal proceedings, does not apply in civil deportation proceedings.14 Consequently, evidence is admissible in an immigration court even if stems from a law enforcement agent\u2019s unlawful stop or arrest.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Wow, that sounds astonishingly similiar to Naps&#8217; argument, doesn&#8217;t it?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Go over and read Ms. Malkin first, and then HotAir. Per Naps on CNN: And yes, &hellip; <a title=\"Want to know where Napolitano got the fuzzy law on immigration?\" class=\"hm-read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=9942\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Want to know where Napolitano got the fuzzy law on immigration?<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":148,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9942","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/148"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=9942"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9942\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=9942"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=9942"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=9942"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}