Trump Effect: City Claims Undocumented Man Had No Constitutional Rights
While searching for a domestic violence suspect in the summer of 2017, police in Southaven, Mississippi, visited the wrong home and shot dead an innocent man. But according to the city, 41-year-old Ismael Lopez wasn’t protected by the U.S. Constitution at the time of his slaying because he was an undocumented immigrant.
Speaking to reporters last week, Murray Wells, an attorney representing Lopez’s family, lambasted the city’s argument as both “chilling” and “insane,” The Washington Post reported.
As The Washington Post noted, the U.S. Supreme Court has ruled on multiple occasions that people on U.S. soil are guaranteed certain basic rights, no matter their immigration status.
Wells said he and the Lopez family were appalled by the tactics employed by the city of Southaven. “We’re stunned that someone put this in writing,” the attorney told the Post.
https://www.yahoo.com/news/ismael-lopez-mississippi-police-no-constitutional-rights-102224401.html
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