Do Bad Guys Deserve Due Process? [View all]

American residents — who were in the country legally — are now trapped in one of El Salvador’s most brutal maximum-security prisons, a modern-day gulag. This is happening right now.

They were sent by our government without a hearing, without a trial, without being convicted of a crime, for a duration that has not been specified.

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At its core, due process means the government must follow fair procedures before it can take away your life, liberty, or property. It's not a luxury or a loophole — it's a constitutional guarantee, enshrined in the Fifth and Fourteenth Amendments.

Due process is what keeps America from becoming a country where the government can jail you without telling you why, deport you without a hearing, or take your property without warning. It’s the right to know the charges against you, to have a fair chance to respond, and to be judged by an impartial decision-maker. In criminal cases, it means the government must prove its case — you don’t have to prove your innocence.

https://www.brightamerica.org/p/do-bad-guys-deserve-due-process