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... constitutional safeguards available to other United States citizens , America's " old " immigrants . Generally , the report reaches two conclusions : current immigration laws still contain discriminatory provisions , and current ...
... constitutional safeguards available to other United States citizens , America's " old " immigrants . Generally , the report reaches two conclusions : current immigration laws still contain discriminatory provisions , and current ...
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... constitutional safeguards for detained persons . For example , in the 1950s during " Operation Wetback , " the administrative expulsion process was shortened to achieve speedier deportations . And immigration agencies often exact- ed ...
... constitutional safeguards for detained persons . For example , in the 1950s during " Operation Wetback , " the administrative expulsion process was shortened to achieve speedier deportations . And immigration agencies often exact- ed ...
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... constitutional rights provided to persons during the apprehension , detention , and deportation stages of the immigration expulsion process and the effect that process has on persons other than those subject to deportation . The 17 The ...
... constitutional rights provided to persons during the apprehension , detention , and deportation stages of the immigration expulsion process and the effect that process has on persons other than those subject to deportation . The 17 The ...
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... constitutional rights and to present evidence that would have prevented their deportation . More than 1 million . persons of Mexican descent were expelled from this country in 1954 at the height of " Operation Wet- back . " 53 The 1965 ...
... constitutional rights and to present evidence that would have prevented their deportation . More than 1 million . persons of Mexican descent were expelled from this country in 1954 at the height of " Operation Wet- back . " 53 The 1965 ...
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... constitutional safeguards which ensure them , however , have bypassed our immigration laws . They remain a disgraceful relic of the past nurtured in the mouldy miasma of unfounded prejudice , bias , and racial discrimination . . . These ...
... constitutional safeguards which ensure them , however , have bypassed our immigration laws . They remain a disgraceful relic of the past nurtured in the mouldy miasma of unfounded prejudice , bias , and racial discrimination . . . These ...
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Page 68 - Experience should teach us to be most on our guard to protect liberty when the Government's purposes are beneficent. Men born to freedom are naturally alert to repel invasion of their liberty by evil-minded rulers. The greatest dangers to liberty lurk in insidious encroachment by men of zeal, well-meaning but without understanding.
Page 108 - Sec. 19. That at any time within five years after entry, any alien who at the time of entry was a member of one or more of the classes excluded by law; any alien who shall have entered or who shall be found in the United States in violation of this Act, or in violation of any other law of the United States...
Page 80 - States; (3) within a reasonable distance from any external boundary of the United States, to board and search for aliens any vessel within the territorial waters of the United States...
Page 104 - Such alien may be released under bond in the penalty of not less than $500 with security approved by the Attorney General on condition that such alien shall be produced when required as a witness and for deportation, and on such other conditions as the Attorney General may prescribe.
Page 108 - But this court has never held, nor must we now be understood as holding, that administrative officers, when executing the provisions of a statute involving the liberty of persons, may disregard the fundamental principles that inhere in "due process of law" as understood at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. One of these principles is that no person shall be deprived of his liberty without opportunity, at some time, to be heard, before such officers in respect...
Page 108 - ... due process of law" as understood at the time of the adoption of the Constitution. One of these principles is that no person shall be deprived of his liberty without opportunity, at some time, to be heard, before such officers in respect of the matters upon which that liberty depends — not necessarily an opportunity upon a regular, set occasion, and according to the forms of judicial procedure, but one that will secure the prompt, vigorous action contemplated by Congress, and at the same time...
Page 1 - Give me your tired, your poor, Your huddled masses yearning to breathe free, The wretched refuse of your teeming shore. Send these, the homeless, tempest-tost to me, I lift my lamp beside the golden door!
Page 108 - We would hardly attribute to Congress a purpose to be less scrupulous about the fairness of a hearing necessitated by the Constitution than one granted by it as a matter of expediency. " Indeed, to so construe the Immigration Act might again bring it into constitutional jeopardy. When the Constitution requires a hearing, it requires a fair one, one before a tribunal which meets at least currently prevailing standards of impartiality.
Page 100 - Aliens lawfully admitted for permanent residence who temporarily proceeded abroad voluntarily and not under an order of deportation, and who are returning to a lawful unrelinquished domicile of seven consecutive years...
Page 68 - The Constitution does not explicitly mention any right of privacy. In a line of decisions, however, going back perhaps as far as Union Pacific R. Co. v. Botsford XI 891), the Court has recognized that a right of personal privacy, or a guarantee of certain areas or zones of privacy, does exist under the Constitution.