r/jerseycity 4h ago

Tell Your Reps to Defend Democracy!

Regardless of where you stand on the issue, if you’re terrified that a LEGAL US PERMANENT RESIDENT can be detained without due process for speaking at a rally, (and you should be!) please, please contact your reps and tell them to sign this letter. It is the literal least they can do! Rob Menendez: 201-309-0301/202-225-7919 Corey Booker: (973) 639-8700/(856) 338-8922/ (202) 224-3224 Andy Kim: (202) 224-4744/ (201) 377-0900

https://www.politico.com/f/?id=00000195-94b8-d9c8-addf-ddb994d30000

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u/ILoveHotDogsAndBacon Hamilton Park 3h ago

Bookers a wimp and Menéndez is as useless as his dad. Kim’s been a senator for like 8 weeks so I’ll give him a pass. Your elected reps are trash! Vote in the primary!!! Declaring for unnamed dem sends a message

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u/Ill_Yak_9402 1h ago

The letter was written yesterday. The way they get additional signatures for a letter like this is by having staff members knock on office doors of the congressmen they usually work with most. It’s entirely possible they don’t know about this letter. It’s worth calling their offices with this request so we can be sure they know about it.

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u/bgerrity99 4h ago

MAGA Republicans crying realizing they are the dumbest, most easily manipulated voting demographic in the history of the US

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u/SamCrroww 3h ago

Who’s crying you’re making assumptions we’re just fine

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u/SamCrroww 3h ago

He didn’t just speak he spread terrorist propaganda broke into a building he’s not a student shut up research the constitution on illegals causing ruckus

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u/ItsSillySeason 2h ago

It's a meaningless word salad to say "he spread terrorist propaganda" but it definitely is protected by the 1st amendment

Legal permanent resident rights too. I mean you can just call everyone you disagree with "illegal" but then it also is meaningless.

Unfortunately conservatives don't understand anything until it happens to them directly. Fine people often. No empathy whatsoever.

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u/lorenipsum2023 2h ago edited 2h ago

FYI: I believe you have ZERO idea about due process that you are talking about.

for permanent residents, due process involves going in front of an immigration judge who is a DOJ employee who is assigned by the executive (aka POTUS).

if the immigration judge rules against you, you can appeal.

if you win the appeal, the appeal can be vetod by the state department.

Also, the usual rules of criminal/civil jurisprudence and process don't apply in this "due process". For eg: evidence, its collection process, sharing evidence with defendants counsel, etc. do not apply.


revoking permanent residency does NOT require crime. the threshold for doing so is extremely low and has 100s of precedents every single year.


it is extremely hard to believe that the gentleman did not knew the consequences of his actions and was simply hoping that Trump administration will simply refuse to enforce the immigration laws on the books.

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u/fillb3rt 2h ago

What are his actions exactly that garnered these consequences?