This lack of due process during Republican rule isn’t new, but is worse and must be protested
Almost 20 years ago, I was a green card holder in the last stages of U.S. citizenship, yet had only a little hesitancy in complaining about the president.
The past weeks have seen a major increase in the government’s arrests and deportation of immigrants, some legal and perhaps some not. The uncertainty lies in the fact that those arrested have not been afforded due process. This is intolerable but it is not new. Almost 20 years ago, I was a green card holder in the last stages of moving to the U.S. citizenship I now hold. Despite my tenuous status, I had only a little hesitancy in writing to the newspapers complaining that the president, George W. Bush, had recently signed into law a bill that removed habeas corpus safeguards from green card holders if they are deemed to “give material aid” to terrorists.
That was then. Serious concerns about the lack of protection from irresponsible government actions against foreign residents has become critical in this second Donald Trump administration.
The actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement toward Venezuelans, Turks and others are quite unconscionable. People are being arrested and even deported without due process and apparently in defiance of court orders. One deportee was even under court protection. This is unacceptable.
Also unacceptable is the removal of student visa status for foreign nationals without a clear cause and due process.
People ask what we can do. My answer, very conventionally, is to protest every appalling act undertaken by this administration. March. Phone your representative politicians; if they are Republicans, ask staffers why they are still working in their offices. Write to the media. Write a blog or maintain a social media account. Keep on doing so. Above all, do not give up.
Martin G. Evans is a writer in Cambridge whose contributions on managerial and political issues have appeared in The Boston Globe, Cambridge Chronicle, MetroWest Daily News, Providence Journal, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail of Toronto, National Post of Toronto and the former Toronto Financial Post. He has taught at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, London Business School, George Mason University, Rutgers University and the Harvard School of Public Health.
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The past weeks have seen a major increase in the government’s arrests and deportation of immigrants, some legal and perhaps some not. The uncertainty lies in the fact that those arrested have not been afforded due process. This is intolerable but it is not new. Almost 20 years ago, I was a green card holder in the last stages of moving to the U.S. citizenship I now hold. Despite my tenuous status, I had only a little hesitancy in writing to the newspapers complaining that the president, George W. Bush, had recently signed into law a bill that removed habeas corpus safeguards from green card holders if they are deemed to “give material aid” to terrorists.
That was then. Serious concerns about the lack of protection from irresponsible government actions against foreign residents has become critical in this second Donald Trump administration.
The actions of U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement toward Venezuelans, Turks and others are quite unconscionable. People are being arrested and even deported without due process and apparently in defiance of court orders. One deportee was even under court protection. This is unacceptable.
Also unacceptable is the removal of student visa status for foreign nationals without a clear cause and due process.
People ask what we can do. My answer, very conventionally, is to protest every appalling act undertaken by this administration. March. Phone your representative politicians; if they are Republicans, ask staffers why they are still working in their offices. Write to the media. Write a blog or maintain a social media account. Keep on doing so. Above all, do not give up.
Martin G. Evans is a writer in Cambridge whose contributions on managerial and political issues have appeared in The Boston Globe, Cambridge Chronicle, MetroWest Daily News, Providence Journal, Toronto Star, Globe and Mail of Toronto, National Post of Toronto and the former Toronto Financial Post. He has taught at the Rotman School of Management at the University of Toronto, London Business School, George Mason University, Rutgers University and the Harvard School of Public Health.
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