“There are 15 million illegal aliens,” Miller said adding that “if each were given a full trial, deportations would take centuries”

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said in a video that went viral on Friday that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process protections when being removed from the United States, arguing that providing full legal proceedings would make deportations unworkable.

“There are 15 million illegal aliens,” Miller said. “If each were given a full trial, deportations would take centuries. They had no due process entering the country, and they are not entitled to it when being removed.”

Supreme Court precedent has long held that constitutional protections apply to noncitizens within U.S. territory. In Wong Wing v. United States (1896), the Court ruled that the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause protects noncitizens from arbitrary detention or punishment.

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    Actually, a lot of them being kicked out now are being pulled from their court dates, so they are following due process.

    This scumbag should die in a jail cell.

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      Not to mention the ones they are simply cancelling their visas and other legal arrangements and then arresting and deporting. Steven Miller is white supremacist scum and should be tried for crimes against humanity.

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        He doesn’t believe in due process for anyone else, why should he get the same benefit? Stephen Miller murdered a child, and should be summarily deported from life. He didn’t use due process to murder the child, so he shouldn’t get due process to avoid the death penalty. No trial, just a hangin’.

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          Once you surrender your humanity it’s very difficult to get it back. Behaving like they do, you’ll become just as awful as they are. I’m not one to believe in the Democrats playing fair while the Republicans do whatever the fuck they want. I certainly think the Democrats, or any liberals that are in Congress, need to step up and use the rules that exist just as strongly as the Republicans have. But if we start ignoring the rule of law the way they are it no longer becomes relevant and we live not in a democracy but in a state of anarchic totalitarianism.

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    Stephen Miller is an undocumented immigrant. He now has to prove the contrary without due process.

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    Due process isn’t something you “deserve”. You are entitled to it, regardless of any circumstance. The process is due to you. It is your unalienable right.

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        Been law governing statesia (then part of England) since 1354. And I quote:

        No man of what state or condition he be, shall be put out of his lands or tenements nor taken, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without he be brought to answer by due process of law.

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    I’m sick of people trying to gaslight us into thinking ICE is only going after illegal immigrants and that they just want people to follow legal processes to come in. They’re arresting people at courthouses, in the midst of following the legal process to immigrate

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      They’re also arresting Americans and then claiming afterwards that their birth certificates are fake.

      And people need to get this through their heads: If illegal immigrants have no right to due process, then NOBODY has the right to due process, because how are you going to prove you’re a citizen without due process?

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      I just saw an ad recruiting new ICE members. It was essentially just selling fear. These people are such cowards.

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    This guy basically just said he doesn’t care what the constitution says, he’s going to do whatever he wants anyway.

    I sure wish the idiots on the right would get riled up over literally anything besides the 2nd amendment.

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    Wouldn’t it be nice if people like shithead steve could have their faces melt like the Nazi in Indiana Jones?

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    Every time I see that horrible fuck’s face I wish for horrible fates to befall him that I will not put in print.

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      I will put them in print. I hope he loses his favorite bath towels and has to dry off with the ones he would use for drying his hands after going to the bathroom if he actually washed his hands

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    Oh geez, using that logic, no criminal used due process to murder, rape, steal, so they can’t be charged.

    Stephen Miller is truly the Chief of Staff we deserve.

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    Can he just come out of the closet already? Why take out whatever problems/insecurities/being in the closet or whatever he has out on everyone else?

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      There’s not a lot of people I’ll say this about, but I think he is just genuinely evil.

      We have the narcissists, the sociopaths, the self-loathing queer people, the ones driven entirely by greed, but I really do think that Stephen Miller delights in the cruelty, the suffering, the… evil

      This photo of Goebbels comes to mind basically every time I think of Miller