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Originally Posted by genuinegirly
Deportation is an insanely steep penalty..
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You know really irks me too? That deportation is 'civil' not criminal. I think that is legal fiction gone too far. I can understand fining an overly polluting factory as 'civil.' But when you get in to deportation, indeed detention and whole uprooting of individuals (individuals who came here at young ages and grew up here no less), it's hard to stomach the fiction that deportation is 'civil' only. So long as deportation is 'civil' (even though it is premised on the deported alien committing crimes), the government can eschew a whole slew of Constitutional protections otherwise afforded in criminal law.