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estearumlast Tuesday at 3:20 PM1 replyview on HN

> One good step from the legislative would be removing the legal basis for the civil rights lawsuits, so they can be thrown out immediately.

You mean the Constitution's 5th Amendment? No thank you, I'll keep that one around.

> Sure, if you can think of better deterrents for migration and better ways to deport more people, then those should be tried as well.

A little known fact is that the Constitution is actually meant to make life difficult for the government. It is not up to the rest of us to come up with Constitutionally valid alternatives to the administration's preferred course of action. That's their job.


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constantcryinglast Tuesday at 3:39 PM

As a European I am not particularly invested in how the US legal system wants to protect non-citizens "rights". I just hope that the EU learns how effective immigration deterrence looks and can make the appropriate legal changes, here in Europe we do not have attachments to centuries old legal concepts, so I think this issue just does not appear here.

One idea which should be explored, both in the US and the EU, is that all lawsuits against immigration decisions have to be paid, either ongoing or up front, by the person who would be affected by the immigration enforcement.