Radley Balko: Immigration questions for Markwayne Mullin

[Nevilledog]

https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/immigration-questions-for-markwayne

— Last year, immigration officials rounded up Venezuelan immigrants and shipped them off CECOT, the torture prison in El Salvador. They were given no due process, and were sent to the prison in defiance of a federal court. Most of the men send to CECOT had no violent record, some had no criminal record at all, and some had government authorization to be in the U.S. while they pursued asylum claims. Do you think sending those men to CECOT an abuse of power?

— Your predecessor at DHS said at one poitn last year that the men would remain at CECOT for the rest of their lives. As a general matter of policy, do you believe that the United States should be rounding up immigrants — legal or not — and sending them to serve life sentences in brutal foreign prisons on no specific charges, and with no trial or due process? If President Trump wanted to resume the practice, or ordered ICE to start sending immigrants to CECOT again, or a different overseas prison with no due process, would you follow those orders?

— Stephen Miller has reportedly set a quota that federal immigration officers deport 3,000 people per day. Do you think arrest/deportation quotas are good policy?

— Miller’s reported ultimate goal is to deport more than a million people per year. No country has ever forcibly displaced that many people without mass casualties, particularly in such a short period of time. Do you think this is a realistic goal? Do you think the U.S. currently has the infrastructure to deport that many people humanely? Does it matter if it’s done humanely?

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Link to his non immigration questions
https://radleybalko.substack.com/p/questions-for-markwayne-mullin