[90436] in Cypherpunks
Re: Report on UN conference on Internet and racism
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Tim May)
Wed Nov 19 01:23:44 1997
In-Reply-To: <3.0.3.32.19971118211756.00c91a60@pop-server.caltech.edu>
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 1997 21:52:38 -0700
To: "Colin A. Reed" <aleph@cco.caltech.edu>,
Mikhael Frieden <mikhaelf@mindspring.com>,
"William H. Geiger III" <whgiii@invweb.net>,
Declan McCullagh <declan@well.com>
From: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
Cc: Peter Herngaard <pethern@inet.uni2.dk>, fight-censorship@vorlon.mit.edu,
cypherpunks@toad.com
Reply-To: Tim May <tcmay@got.net>
At 10:17 PM -0700 11/18/97, Colin A. Reed wrote:
>I think the most important constitutional protection is that of
>due-process. Thus we need to have a court proceeding to determine that
>they really are in the US without a valid visa before we can bus them out.
It's called a "Green Card," popularly.
(Remember those, "Aliens, remember that you must report to the Alien
Landing Terminal every January.")
No court proceeding is needed to deport illegal aliens, save for a
perfunctory classification hearing to determine whether or not they have a
Green Card.
I hope you were not suggesting a long drawn-out court case, with lawyers
paid for by the taxpayers, to decide that which is patently obvious?
--Tim May
The Feds have shown their hand: they want a ban on domestic cryptography
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