Thursday, November 8, 2018

Caravaners’ Lawsuit Against President Trump Is Pure Political Theater

The complaint seeks to castigate the commander-in-chief instead of laying out a legal basis for Honduran citizens to sue our government under the U.S. Constitution. There is no legal basis.
On Thursday, attorneys purporting to represent six Honduran nationals and their minor children filed suit against President Donald Trump and the agencies charged with protecting our borders and enforcing immigration laws. The plaintiffs, all of whom are part of the current caravan making its way to the U.S. border, claim in their lawsuit that the Trump administration is violating their due process rights under the Fifth Amendment to the Constitution.
The lawsuit is frivolous and the complaint—which reads more like a transcript from a late-night MSNBC segment than a legal document—served only one purpose: to focus media attention on Trump’s statements about the caravan and the administration’s detention of illegal aliens.
“Trump’s professed and enacted policy towards thousands of caravanners seeking asylum in the United States is shockingly unconstitutional,” the lawsuit begins, before adding that “President Trump continues to abuse the law, including constitutional rights, to deter Central Americans from exercising their lawful right to seek asylum in the United States, and the fact that innocent children are involved matters none to President Trump.”
The vast majority of the 32-page complaint similarly seeks to castigate the commander-in-chief instead of laying out a legal basis for Honduran citizens to sue our government under the U.S. Constitution. There is no legal basis.
These People Aren’t Even On U.S. Soil --->
Read the rest from Margot Cleveland HERE at The Federalist.

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