Tim, I do not see a through line between Guantanamo during the Bush administration and Trump's deportations to El Salvador. You do not need to concede that point. The men sent to Guantanamo were combatants. Perhaps you saw Michael Moore's documentary on American healthcare which opened with Michael on a boat heading toward Guantanamo to …
Tim, I do not see a through line between Guantanamo during the Bush administration and Trump's deportations to El Salvador. You do not need to concede that point. The men sent to Guantanamo were combatants. Perhaps you saw Michael Moore's documentary on American healthcare which opened with Michael on a boat heading toward Guantanamo to make the point that those imprisoned there received better healthcare than many American citizens. A relevant precedent in the birthright citizenship challenge will be Hamdi v Rumsfeld in which a combatant captured in Afghanistan Yaser Hamdi, who had been sent to Guantanamo, was deemed to have all the rights of American citizenship because he had been born in the United States.
Tim, I do not see a through line between Guantanamo during the Bush administration and Trump's deportations to El Salvador. You do not need to concede that point. The men sent to Guantanamo were combatants. Perhaps you saw Michael Moore's documentary on American healthcare which opened with Michael on a boat heading toward Guantanamo to make the point that those imprisoned there received better healthcare than many American citizens. A relevant precedent in the birthright citizenship challenge will be Hamdi v Rumsfeld in which a combatant captured in Afghanistan Yaser Hamdi, who had been sent to Guantanamo, was deemed to have all the rights of American citizenship because he had been born in the United States.