Mayor Adams says undocumented New Yorkers aren’t owed due process, defying Constitution

https://gothamist.com/news/mayor-adams-says-undocumented-new-yorkers-arent-owed-due-process-defying-constitution

47 comments

  1. Sounds like we’ve found the next appointee to the Trump cabinet.

  2. How do you determine who’s undocumented without due process?

  4. *By Gothamist reporter Elizabeth Kim*

    >Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday incorrectly asserted that undocumented immigrants are not entitled the right to due process under the U.S. Constitution, aligning himself with a notion previously expressed by President-elect Donald Trump.

    >“The Constitution is for Americans,” Adams told reporters at his weekly City Hall press conference. “I’m not a person that snuck into this country. My ancestors have been here for a long time.”

    >At his weekly City Hall press conference, the mayor had asserted that undocumented people who had committed crimes should be deported, suggesting that immigration authorities should not wait for them to stand trial. He was then asked to explain his position on due process, especially given his own legal circumstances.

    >The mayor has pleaded not guilty to federal corruption charges, which he has claimed were politically motivated. Trump has expressed sympathy for Adams, suggesting that he could offer the mayor a pardon.

    >Adams also repeated his desire to scale back the city’s sanctuary rules.

  5. Cop wants due process when he’s the one being investigated but can’t figure out why others should have it.

  6. I’m not sure what the hell has happened to people.

  7. Oh, look. It’s another compromised ring kisser.

  9. Next up: to kill people who look like illegals is not a sin! it is the path to heaven!

  10. Dude is a former cop, so of course he’d think like this.

  12. I still can’t fathom how Adams was the best the Democrats could come up with.

  13. I can’t believe electorate fell for his fake moderate shit, and now full fasc NYC deserves so much better

  14. And without due process you determine that someone is here illegally how exactly? 

  16. … but without due process how do you know they’re undocumented?

  18. Due process just means there’s a formal legal process and you get a chance to defend yourself.

    Seems like a sick thing to say about other folks, I’m not sure how you can establish someone is undocumented without due process.

  19. I’ve got a really shitty feeling that we’re going to be reading the two words “defying constitution” a lot in the coming years.

  23. We love the Constitution, right?

    The right loves their pocket constitution.

    So let’s read it.

    14th Amendment says, among other things:

    “No State shall…deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws.”

    Now I am no lawyer or constitutional scholar, but the part where it says “No state shall deprive *any person* without due process” is pretty clear. Unless you are saying an “illegal” is somehow no longer a human person.

  24. I’m beginning to think A LOT of elected officials have never read the constitution.

  25. Can we please be a little bit better at spotting the very obvious Manchurian candidates?

  26. My man looking for a one-way ticket to the Trump sycophant bootlicking convention

  27. Mayor Eric Adams on Tuesday incorrectly asserted that undocumented immigrants are not entitled the right to due process under the U.S. Constitution, aligning himself with a notion previously expressed by President-elect Donald Trump.

    “The Constitution is for Americans,” Adams told reporters at his weekly City Hall press conference. “I’m not a person that snuck into this country. My ancestors have been here for a long time.”

    Legal experts disputed Adams’ statement.

    “The mayor’s claim has no basis in law,” said Elora Mukherjee, the director of the Immigrant Rights Clinic at Columbia Law School. “The laws set forth in the Constitution generally apply to everyone present in U.S. soil whether or not they are a citizen and regardless of their immigration status.”

  28. He is not a very smart person as evident by his work as an unregistered agnent for Turkey. Clearly he is no scholars and totally, ethnically, bankrupt.

    What about all the other visitors in the US? For just a little longer, he is the mayor of one of the world’s most popular tourist destinations. In the eyes of the law, these distinctions create major problems.

  29. He’s basically saying people *accused* of a crime are not owed due process.  OK, let’s fly with that… starting with him

  30. 14th amendment:

    >… nor shall any State deprive **any person** of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law

  31. Isn’t a part of the point of due process so that if someone is *falsely* accused of being undocumented, they have an opportunity to gather and present the relevant information?

  32. Is it mandatory that a NYC mayor is just a total asshole that nobody likes?

  33. Every SCOTUS bench, at the very least every one prior to the Robert’s Court, disagree and have ruled, all the way back to the founding, that the Constitution applies equally to all persons within the US.

  36. Of corse a cop doesn’t understand due process

  37. This is the most cop-ass-cop thing I’ve ever read.

    I thought we had seen the worst out of the POS, and then here he goes with this BS.

    And it’s an obvious ploy to get a pardon out of Trump.

    ““We should be able to address and coordinate with any entity when you’re dealing with those who commit crimes in our city,” The Mayor said.

    It really takes a cop to think they can decide who’s guilty of a crime without having a trail.

  39. The Constitution explicitly affords due process to all people.  It does not say citizens.

  40. Bros trying to get a pardon for all the crimes he committed and made sure to talk about via text in his bribery scheme.

  43. He blames them for his own incompetence. His inability to manage the crisis, his lack of political capital to spend to get the resources he needed, and his general inability to do anything right that doesn’t also include a paper bag filled with cash has been his undoing.

  44. Adams knew who to hitch his wagon to the minute Trump got elected. Instant get out of jail free card if he kisses the ring. This time next year he won’t be a Democrat anymore, much like RFK and Tulsi.

  45. Next time New York, don’t elect a cop for Mayor. They’re ALL corrupt. You are the home of the NYPD, you should know this by now.

  46. Huh?

    Nowhere in the constitution does it say that undocumented illegal immigrants are afforded any constitutional rights

  47. >Davis, 533 U.S. 678, 693 (2001) (explaining that the Due Process Clause applies to all ‘persons’ within the United States, including aliens, whether their presence here is lawful, unlawful, temporary, or permanent.

    So he is just wrong.

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