thread on actual for real governmental attacks on constitutional liberties
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I'm fully aware of what that means.
Whereas your cheerleaders for the cancellation of the bill of rights over a chest cold still makes you feel virtuous
Americans should beware of Gabbard's 'dangerous distraction' with revisionist history of 2016 election
DNI Tulsi Gabbard's claims about the 2016 election conflate Russian 'hacking' with 'influence' operations, rewriting history while diverting attention from the Jeffrey Epstein scandal.
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Took me some time to remember to come back to this, but quite literally nothing has changed on this. Gabbard is being maliciously dense here on the claims that have been made, and I say this as someone who has criticized the prior focus by Dems on the scandal. My view remains that Trump happily welcomed Russian support for his bid for the Presidency, but that it fell short of the grandiose claims of criminal collusion.
nsacpi
Expects Yuge Games
A Korean-born researcher and longtime U.S. legal permanent resident has spent the past week detained by immigration officials at San Francisco International Airport without explanation and has been denied access to an attorney, according to his lawyer.
Tae Heung “Will” Kim has lived in the United States since he was 5 and is a green-card holder pursuing his PhD at Texas A&M University, where he is researching a vaccine for Lyme disease, said his attorney, Eric Lee. Kim, 40, was detained by immigration officials on July 21 at a secondary screening point after returning from a two-week visit to South Korea for his younger brother’s wedding.
The government has not said why it detained him, Lee said, and immigration officials have refused to let Kim speak to an attorney or communicate with his family members directly except for a brief call to his mother on Friday. In 2011, Kim faced a minor marijuana possession charge in Texas, Lee said, but he fulfilled a community service requirement and successfully petitioned for nondisclosure to seal the offense from the public record.
“If a green card holder is convicted of a drug offense, violating their status, that person is issued a Notice to Appear and CBP coordinates detention space with ICE ERO,” a CBP spokesperson said Thursday in a statement to The Washington Post. “This alien is in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.”
Aside from a brief phone call, the only other contact Kim’s family has had with him is through what they believe to be secondhand text messages — probably an immigration official texting them from Kim’s phone in his presence. When relatives asked via text if Kim is sleeping on the floor or if the lights remain on all day, Lee said, the reply from Kim’s phone read: “Don’t worry about it.”
When Lee asked a CBP supervisor in a phone call if the Fifth and Sixth amendments — which establish rights to due process and the right to counsel — applied to Kim, the supervisor replied “no,” according to Lee.
“If the Constitution doesn’t apply to somebody who’s lived in this country for 35 years and is a green-card holder — and only left the country for a two-week vacation — that means [the government] is basically arguing that the Constitution doesn’t apply to anybody who’s been in this country for less time than him,” Lee said Monday.
Representatives for CBP and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment Monday, including questions about why Kim has remained at the airport beyond the department’s typical 72-hour maximum and about the supervisor’s alleged comment about his constitutional rights.
Lee, the attorney, said that with no details from immigration officials or direct access to Kim, he and Kim’s family can only speculate on the reason he was detained, though Lee believes it is probably tied to the 2011 drug charge. But immigration law has a long-established waiver process that allows officials to overlook certain minor crimes that would otherwise threaten a legal permanent resident’s status. Lee said Kim easily meets the criteria for a waiver.
“Why detain him when he’s got this waiver that is available to him?” Lee said.
Other foreign-born researchers detained by the Trump administration have included scholars accused of being “national security threats” because they expressed views opposing U.S. foreign policy toward Israel. In another case, a Russian-born researcher studying at Harvard University was charged for allegedly smuggling frog embryos into the country.
Sharon Lee, 65, and her husband came to the U.S. on business visas in the 1980s, and she eventually became a naturalized citizen. But by then, Kim and his younger brother had aged out of the automatic citizenship benefit for minor children whose parents are naturalized. The brothers are legal permanent residents and have spent most of their lives in the United States.
After more than three decades in the U.S., Sharon Lee said her son’s predicament has saddened and surprised her.
“I immigrated here to the States — I thought I understood it was a country of equal rights where the Constitution applies equally,” she said.
Tae Heung “Will” Kim has lived in the United States since he was 5 and is a green-card holder pursuing his PhD at Texas A&M University, where he is researching a vaccine for Lyme disease, said his attorney, Eric Lee. Kim, 40, was detained by immigration officials on July 21 at a secondary screening point after returning from a two-week visit to South Korea for his younger brother’s wedding.
The government has not said why it detained him, Lee said, and immigration officials have refused to let Kim speak to an attorney or communicate with his family members directly except for a brief call to his mother on Friday. In 2011, Kim faced a minor marijuana possession charge in Texas, Lee said, but he fulfilled a community service requirement and successfully petitioned for nondisclosure to seal the offense from the public record.
“If a green card holder is convicted of a drug offense, violating their status, that person is issued a Notice to Appear and CBP coordinates detention space with ICE ERO,” a CBP spokesperson said Thursday in a statement to The Washington Post. “This alien is in ICE custody pending removal proceedings.”
Aside from a brief phone call, the only other contact Kim’s family has had with him is through what they believe to be secondhand text messages — probably an immigration official texting them from Kim’s phone in his presence. When relatives asked via text if Kim is sleeping on the floor or if the lights remain on all day, Lee said, the reply from Kim’s phone read: “Don’t worry about it.”
When Lee asked a CBP supervisor in a phone call if the Fifth and Sixth amendments — which establish rights to due process and the right to counsel — applied to Kim, the supervisor replied “no,” according to Lee.
“If the Constitution doesn’t apply to somebody who’s lived in this country for 35 years and is a green-card holder — and only left the country for a two-week vacation — that means [the government] is basically arguing that the Constitution doesn’t apply to anybody who’s been in this country for less time than him,” Lee said Monday.
Representatives for CBP and the Department of Homeland Security did not respond to a request for comment Monday, including questions about why Kim has remained at the airport beyond the department’s typical 72-hour maximum and about the supervisor’s alleged comment about his constitutional rights.
Lee, the attorney, said that with no details from immigration officials or direct access to Kim, he and Kim’s family can only speculate on the reason he was detained, though Lee believes it is probably tied to the 2011 drug charge. But immigration law has a long-established waiver process that allows officials to overlook certain minor crimes that would otherwise threaten a legal permanent resident’s status. Lee said Kim easily meets the criteria for a waiver.
“Why detain him when he’s got this waiver that is available to him?” Lee said.
Other foreign-born researchers detained by the Trump administration have included scholars accused of being “national security threats” because they expressed views opposing U.S. foreign policy toward Israel. In another case, a Russian-born researcher studying at Harvard University was charged for allegedly smuggling frog embryos into the country.
Sharon Lee, 65, and her husband came to the U.S. on business visas in the 1980s, and she eventually became a naturalized citizen. But by then, Kim and his younger brother had aged out of the automatic citizenship benefit for minor children whose parents are naturalized. The brothers are legal permanent residents and have spent most of their lives in the United States.
After more than three decades in the U.S., Sharon Lee said her son’s predicament has saddened and surprised her.
“I immigrated here to the States — I thought I understood it was a country of equal rights where the Constitution applies equally,” she said.
Absolutely disgusting. I’m sure one of the weasels at DHS will give us a statement next week about how nobody is above the law and he is a criminal migrant.