“There are 15 million illegal aliens,” Miller said adding that “if each were given a full trial, deportations would take centuries”

White House Deputy Chief of Staff Stephen Miller said in a video that went viral on Friday that undocumented immigrants are not entitled to due process protections when being removed from the United States, arguing that providing full legal proceedings would make deportations unworkable.

“There are 15 million illegal aliens,” Miller said. “If each were given a full trial, deportations would take centuries. They had no due process entering the country, and they are not entitled to it when being removed.”

Supreme Court precedent has long held that constitutional protections apply to noncitizens within U.S. territory. In Wong Wing v. United States (1896), the Court ruled that the Fifth Amendment’s due process clause protects noncitizens from arbitrary detention or punishment.

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    Can’t stress this enough, but Stephen Miller is one of the shittiest humans alive. Has all the earmarks of an asshole young man who was shunned by all women, and he’s out for his revenge. What a twat.

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    This guy basically just said he doesn’t care what the constitution says, he’s going to do whatever he wants anyway.

    I sure with the idiots on the right would get riled up over literally anything besides the 2nd amendment.

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    I’m sick of people trying to gaslight us into thinking ICE is only going after illegal immigrants and that they just want people to follow legal processes to come in. They’re arresting people at courthouses, in the midst of following the legal process to immigrate

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      I just saw an ad recruiting new ICE members. It was essentially just selling fear. These people are such cowards.

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      Isn’t the onus on the state to prove they are undocumented? That’s the charge yea?

      So…defense lawyer to 5-A, checkmate?

      This seems like something that would be thrown out before the envelope was even opened. Like AOL floppies on the judges docket.

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    Every time I see that horrible fuck’s face I wish for horrible fates to befall him that I will not put in print.

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      I will put them in print. I hope he loses his favorite bath towels and has to dry off with the ones he would use for drying his hands after going to the bathroom if he actually washed his hands

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    Can he just come out of the closet already? Why take out whatever problems/insecurities/being in the closet or whatever he has out on everyone else?

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      There’s not a lot of people I’ll say this about, but I think he is just genuinely evil.

      We have the narcissists, the sociopaths, the self-loathing queer people, the ones driven entirely by greed, but I really do think that Stephen Miller delights in the cruelty, the suffering, the… evil

      This photo of Goebbels comes to mind basically every time I think of Miller

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    Cannot wait to see that logic used on him when it comes to his time - he didn’t do any of what he did with due process, so no due process is owed him when deciding what to do about his crimes…

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    Oh geez, using that logic, no criminal used due process to murder, rape, steal, so they can’t be charged.

    Stephen Miller is truly the Chief of Staff we deserve.

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    You need due process to even know if they are illegal aliens. They just want to deport people without checking.

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    Due process isn’t something you “deserve”. You are entitled to it, regardless of any circumstance. The process is due to you. It is your unalienable right.

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        Been law governing statesia (then part of England) since 1354. And I quote:

        No man of what state or condition he be, shall be put out of his lands or tenements nor taken, nor disinherited, nor put to death, without he be brought to answer by due process of law.