Jason Miyares, you would think, would have learned about due process in law school.
Middle-school kids learn about due process in eighth-grade civics.
I bring this up because our Virginia attorney general had his office send out a taxpayer-funded press release on Monday touting his effort to push the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a lower-court judge into allowing “Immediate Deportations of Tren de Aragua Gang Members.”
ICYMI
- Mark Warner pushes Trump’s ICE, DHS for answers on Manassas arrest
- A Real Madrid tattoo can get you disappeared by the Trump Gestapo
- Latino who voted for Donald Trump caught up in ICE raid in Northern Virginia
Looks like our Jason Miyares might have flunked first-year constitutional law, and we might want to get a look at his scholastic record while we’re at it.
“Our federal, state, and local law enforcement are working with unity and clarity of purpose towards making our communities safer and putting a stop to those who profit from human suffering and violence. The Supreme Court can and should stop this single district court judge from bringing our efforts to a screeching halt,” Miyares allowed himself to be quoted in his office’s press release.
This guy somehow got elected attorney general, and he’s aiming to get a second term in November, without even a basic working knowledge of how the law works.
Not even the most liberal among the activist set is going to tell you they have a problem with violent gang members being thrown into prison, but seriously, how about gathering evidence, getting an arrest warrant, securing an indictment, going through the trial process and winning a conviction first?
Alternatively, we could just snatch people off the streets and put them on a plane to El Salvador because they have tattoos and wear Air Jordans.
Seriously, this is from an official “validation” guide from the Department of Homeland Security, which declares that subjects with “tattoos denoting membership/loyalty to TdA” and those who “display insignia, logos, notations, drawings, or dress known to indicate allegiance to TdA” get themselves a free plane ticket to Central America.
If it was only as simple as saying, that guy has an obvious TdA tattoo, or, that guy is wearing an “I’m a member of TdA” T-shirt, but that’s not what’s going on here.
To say the least, DHS agents are taking advantage of the wide latitude in this “validation” guide to reach their deportation quotas.
Which has the feds trying to decide which tattoos are OK and which are TdA.
The Michael Jordan thing – not just his shoes, but jerseys with his name and number – would seem to put a generation of Gen X basketball fans on the short list for one of these midnight flights.
Except that, oh, that’s right, older White guys with tats and Jordans are OK.
Just be careful with the tattoos with crowns, and maybe skip the tanning bed this year, just in case.
Note here for Jason Miyares: I wouldn’t go jogging around Richmond with Jumpman gear without my papers tucked into my running shorts, if you know what I’m getting at here.
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Chris Graham
