The Trump adviser is trying to redefine the Constitution in order to carry out his extreme immigration agenda.
The Trump administration continues to subvert the constitutional right to due process to justify its illegal, extrajudicial deportations.
“The right of ‘due process’ is to protect citizens from their government, not to protect foreign trespassers from removal,” wrote deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller on Monday morning. “Due process guarantees the rights of a criminal defendant facing prosecution, not an illegal alien facing deportation.”
This is not how the law works. The clause has no specification for citizenship. Miller’s claim has been widely rebuked.
Even if that were true, a deported person is generally sent back to their country a free (wo)man. Unless the destination country has other business with them, they’re free to return to life as usual. When you are paying someone else to imprison them, it’s not deportation. When you do it without due process, it’s a concentration camp.