As a libertarian he should be asking if the legislation is necessary. I think its pretty common sense that an immigrant who commits a violent crime should be prosecuted and deported after completion of their sentence. No one is arguing against that. The headline from the twitter post mentions rapists and pedophiles. Does anyone believe that a majority of people on either side of the aisle are pro rape? Of course not, and there have been laws against that probably since laws have been a thing.
In my opinion the legislation is probably unnecessary but I'm not gonna argue too hard against anything that could offer additional protection to victims of domestic violence. I have my suspicions about why the voting went the way it did, but knowing little about the actual details of the legislation I could be easily swayed either way with a decent argument. The problem in this scenario though is he isn't trying to sway an opinion on it, he's just using a biased twitter source to randomly say "other side bad."
Its a real beta LINO move.
What I don’t see in the language of the text of the bill is whether or not deportation would be before, during, or after completion of any term of incarceration.
I’m all for deportation after conviction for these crimes (frankly for pretty much any felony) as soon as they are released on probation/parole. Just reading the language of the bill (without doing a deep dive into the rest of the immigration statutes it is amending)….that language allows the immediate deportation if the alien admits the crime (before conviction) or immediately upon conviction. It makes no mention of whether they have to serve an sentence of incarceration before being deported though.
Reading JUST the text of the bill in a vacuum, I could prosecute and convict a sex offender where they are given a long prison sentence just to have them deported without serving their prison sentence first. In that situation, the alien probably prefers to be deported over serving time and gets a shot at entering the country illegally again. That is not a just result.
Like I said though, that’s based upon the text in the bill alone. There may language in the rest of the statutes of the U.S. Code that addresses that one way or the other.
Furthermore, a quick look at the U.S. Code indicates the any alien convicted any “aggravated felony, drug crimes, certain firearm offenses, crimes of moral turpitude, domestic violence, stalking, violations of VPOs and plenty of other crimes are already deportable under the law. I didn’t fully look at the list of aggravated felonies or moral turpitude crimes in the statute, but it’s had to imagine that rape and sex crimes against children aren’t in there.
Which kind of makes me question whether this bill is all just a publicity stunt/meaningless political theater as much as anything else.
