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Originally Posted by DerailAmnesty.com
Yeah, and I'm not voting for someone who is going to address California's biggest problem in a half-assed fashion.
Getting rid of some of the illegals is not enough to fix much of what is wrong with California. Getting rid of all of the illegals in such a manner that they take tens of thousands of their American-born offspring with them when they leave, is. Just about anything other than what is described in my last sentence keeps us on the financially ruinous and culturally poisoned Highway to Hell on which we are currently driving, only at a slower rate of speed.
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My response was a bit too flippant
Well, there is one tiny little problem...ex post facto. It's in that silly document called the Constitution. Justice Chase in Calder v Bull (3 US 386 [1798], defined the first aspect of ex post facto as:
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Every law that makes an action done before the passing of the law, and which was innocent when done, criminal; and punishes such action.
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I am all for changing the law to stop future illegal immigration. However, dealing with those that are already here is a bit more sticky.