Subject: Re: Government deported a U.S. citizen with no process
This isn't very difficult to understand: Crossing the border illegally is a crime. People who do that are subject to deportation. Sometimes these people have kids who ARE US citizens...and in many instances when the parent is detained for the crime they committed, something must be done.

Leaving aside that not all people who are undocumented crossed the border illegally, the due process problem stems from the government trying to speedrun these deportations.

The Administration appears to have figured out that if they can get these folks sped away and out of the country fast enough, they can prevent them from availing themselves of their due process rights. Normally, this woman might be able to get herself in front of a judge to contest her deportation. Trump is very frustrated about having to go in front of judges. It takes time, it takes manpower - and so doing that constrains how fast he can deport people.

The due process problem here is when you take the parents of a young child, deliberately separate them from each other and give them only a few minutes to make an insanely important decision about what they are going to do with their child. For no good reason. Even if you stipulate that this woman has to leave, and has to do it very soon, there's no earthly reason why "very soon" has to be "in a few couple of hours after we detain her." You end up causing very avoidable harms to an innocent U.S. citizen. And the only reason to do it that fast is to make it impossible for the woman to exercise any of the due process rights that she is entitled to - to consult with counsel and request a hearing to contest her deportation.

What's most egregious is that this woman was not a criminal, apart from her illegal status in the country. Which means she posed zero threat to anyone. Again, there is no earthly reason why this had to happen so fast as to inflict horrible trauma on everyone, rather than an orderly process that allowed her and her husband to make arrangements that were best for their kid.