In such a case an investigation on the administation should be launched. An U.S. citizen can't legally be deported from U.S. and they may be eligle for compensation if they are deported.
I'm not fully versed in how the U.S. justice system works but in my country it would be some third party. In the U.S. a special counsil maybe which in history has been appointed by at least an Deputy Attorney General (Mueller special counsel investigation).
Kilmar Garcia case is not fully analogous in my opinion since he is not an U.S. citizen which was my original point.
A special counsel would be appointed by the Attorney General. Trump's not about to let that happen and congress isn't about to force him. We'll see Monday if the administration is ruled in contempt of court over Garcia - and if courts can make that stick. Perhaps the Supreme Court will back the judge up - which maybe will help congress grow a backbone. If the administration gets away with flouting the rule of law I don't see why they wouldn't try and revoke someone's citizenship when they thought they could get away with it.
Things can change, but for example Mueller was appointed by the Deputy Attorney General Rosenstein during President Trump's first term and he also appointed Rosenstein (according to Wikipedia) so that might indicate, that the Deputy Attorney General could appoint a special counsil no matter who the President is.
If he was a permanent resident. You know... a legal immigrant that republicans say that they accept. I'm sure his residency would have been taken away without due process. But, you're okay with that right?
A permanent residency can be revoked in certain situations, such as an criminal conviction. If convicted for the crime of murder it most likely would be grounds to revoke the residency and if he were not an U.S. citizen he could be deported. He was not convicted so it should not apply to him.
If the permanent residency were taken away with no grounds I would not be ok with it and neither should other people in my opinion.
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u/malybongo 1d ago
There’s a documentary about it on Netflix (if it’s still available) called “Long Shot”, it’s well worth a watch.