[90403] in Cypherpunks
Re: Report on UN conference on Internet and racism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Bob O'Booey)
Tue Nov 18 22:32:22 1997
Date: Wed, 19 Nov 1997 03:58:42 +0100 (MET)
To: cypherpunks@toad.com
From: nobody@replay.com (Anonymous)
From: "Bob O'Booey" <a-hole@dev.null>
Reply-To: "Bob O'Booey" <a-hole@dev.null>
Mr. Geiger writes:
>I think that there is plenty of case law of extending constutional
>protections to non-citizens. One that comes to mind were the rulings
>against California inwhich the courts ruled the they were obligated to
>provide schooling and social services to illegal aliens (a really fucked
>rulling IMNSHO but if some good can come out of it no sense not making use
>of it).
But that applied to non-citizens on US soil. IIRC, it removed the
distinction between "good aliens" (i.e., those who had green cards) and
"bad aliens" where availability of services was concerned.
I don't think non-citizens who aren't on US soil have any particular
protection under US law. They can bring a lawsuit against the US or a US
entity, but I think that's about it (cf. Jim Choate's posting of the
relevant Constitutional sections).
