My main concern is the US moving one step closer to a police state with every new president starting with Bush Sr. and his control of the news agencies, then of course Jr. with Homeland Security and the wire tapping bit, and now with the ever smiling, always "shocked", "surprised", and "outraged" guy we currently have, as if he does not have a clue what his own country is doing... It scares me to think someone can report you in the future for a crime you did not commit, but with all the red tape and paranoia, you end up serving five years for doing nothing.
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I'd like to add that this is a real concern and I'll explain why: one of my friends has a boyfriend with a permanent resident card from Mexico he received over a decade ago. He got in a fist fight with someone about three years back and was charged with felony assault because he went with a public defender instead of trying to fight it and the defender told him to just take the charge and plea out. Recently, someone who does not like him called ICE and told them he was a felon on the run that needed to be deported. ICE went to pick him up at his home and took him to a secure complex ran by Homeland Security. There, they kept him locked up without any rights telling him they would deport him and while locked up, he found out some of the people in there had been held in that detention center for over ten-months without trial or extradition. So his current wife got a hold of a lawyer and (after several thousand dollars) got the lawyer to get a lower-circuit judge to issue an order to release him from captivity, but the lawyer also told her that these detention centers get paid $1,700 a week to hold prisoners. The judge and lawyer said he'd be out by Wednesday, but the detention center said they did not have the papers and kept him over till Monday instead (trying to squeeze out and extra $1,700?) before releasing him.
So he wasn't a citizen, but did have a legal right to be here from his permanent resident card. He did have a felony on his record, but already served his time. What gives our government the right to hold him indefinitely? How could they react so unjustly on just a tip without doing any real investigation? When will they start doing this to US citizens, holding them in detention centers not located in America so they don't have to charge them with any crimes? I got chills when my friend and her boyfriend told me this story and showed me their lawyers papers. This is what I'm afraid of, and a direction I'd fear our country is going.
EDIT:
I'd like to add that this is a real concern and I'll explain why: one of my friends has a boyfriend with a permanent resident card from Mexico he received over a decade ago. He got in a fist fight with someone about three years back and was charged with felony assault because he went with a public defender instead of trying to fight it and the defender told him to just take the charge and plea out. Recently, someone who does not like him called ICE and told them he was a felon on the run that needed to be deported. ICE went to pick him up at his home and took him to a secure complex ran by Homeland Security. There, they kept him locked up without any rights telling him they would deport him and while locked up, he found out some of the people in there had been held in that detention center for over ten-months without trial or extradition. So his current wife got a hold of a lawyer and (after several thousand dollars) got the lawyer to get a lower-circuit judge to issue an order to release him from captivity, but the lawyer also told her that these detention centers get paid $1,700 a week to hold prisoners. The judge and lawyer said he'd be out by Wednesday, but the detention center said they did not have the papers and kept him over till Monday instead (trying to squeeze out and extra $1,700?) before releasing him.
So he wasn't a citizen, but did have a legal right to be here from his permanent resident card. He did have a felony on his record, but already served his time. What gives our government the right to hold him indefinitely? How could they react so unjustly on just a tip without doing any real investigation? When will they start doing this to US citizens, holding them in detention centers not located in America so they don't have to charge them with any crimes? I got chills when my friend and her boyfriend told me this story and showed me their lawyers papers. This is what I'm afraid of, and a direction I'd fear our country is going.
"The true value of a human being is determined primarily by the measure and the sense in which he has attained liberation from the self." -Albert Einsetin