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I'd, at the very least, expect the system to rapidly right the clear wrong when confronted with strong evidence.
> If you don’t want to be mistaken for an illegal alien, how about not riding around with them?
My First Amendment rights include the right to associate with non-citizens.
Am I supposed to demand my friends' citizenship paperwork before going out to dinner? Come the fuck on.
> And once the authorities were presented with his documents he was released.
No, he wasn't.
"However, the state prosecutor insisted the court lacked jurisdiction over Lopez-Gomez’s release because U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement had formally asked the jail to hold him. “This court does not have any jurisdiction other than what I’ve already done,” [Judge] Riggans said."
> Am I supposed to demand my friends' citizenship paperwork before going out to dinner? Come the fuck on.
I have the right to go hang out with some drug dealers standing on a street corner too. But I can hardly complain if I get caught up in a sting.
You absolutely can, if there was no probable cause for your detention.
Doubly so if you've presented your proof to a court and still can't get out of jail.
This is a ridiculous line of reasoning.
In that version you’re in the conference room as the white collar crime is happening, when the Feds come in to arrest everybody.
Eliminate all enforcement.
You realize that it is (or was) legal to walk into the United States and claim asylum. At that point you have a legal right to reside until the US immigration system decides you need to leave. The alternative is Visa expirations.
The US labor system is designed so that asylum seekers and people on expired Visa's exist in limbo, so that this exact kind of violent force can be used against them to create a hyper-exploited labor class.
The solution is either 1. Close up the border entirely (inhumane and also not beneficial to capitalists) 2. Actually process immigrants instead of keeping them in limbo.
The US benefits from the ambiguity and terror it can inflict on your fellow human beings. I personally don't give a fuck about the law, so that's my bias, but I find it absurd that there are people who still believe that there is some legal basis to be followed, when this administration has already dropped habeas corpus. You value the rules created by the rich and powerful (your class enemies) more than the lives of your fellow humans-- you are truly a fool and I hope you can wake up soon.