How Immigration Courts Contaminate American Justice

this posting should have been titled:
How Illegal Immigration Contaminates America

[BoardWizard]

Imagine a legal proceeding where the judge is hired by the chief prosecutor, the defendant is charged with an unintelligible offense, he has no lawyer to defend him, the proceedings are conducted in a language he does not understand, and the punishment is banishment from his home, his livelihood, and his family for the rest of his life. This might be a scene in a courtroom operated by some totalitarian regime, or by a Taliban or Ayatollah fanatic. Actually, the above description represents "justice" in America's immigration courts. It's a bizarre world invisible to most Americans in which government power is used abusively and arbitrarily, constitutional rights are non-existent, lives are destroyed, and there is virtually no chance of correction. Read more here

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[BoardWizard]

Imagine a legal proceeding where the judge is hired by the chief prosecutor, the defendant is charged with an unintelligible offense, he has no lawyer to defend him, the proceedings are conducted in a language he does not understand, and the punishment is banishment from his home, his livelihood, and his family for the rest of his life. This might be a scene in a courtroom operated by some totalitarian regime, or by a Taliban or Ayatollah fanatic. Actually, the above description represents "justice" in America's immigration courts. It's a bizarre world invisible to most Americans in which government power is used abusively and arbitrarily, constitutional rights are non-existent, lives are destroyed, and there is virtually no chance of correction. Read more here

Santorum shrugs off report of Iowa vote errors

Republican presidential candidate Rick Santorum is shrugging off reports that the vote count from Iowa's caucuses might be wrong, saying the errors appear not to change the fact that he and Mitt Romney were nearly tied.

Read more here