“Due Process” a ‘constitutional Right of Al in the US Has Been Illegally Denied by Secretary Kristi Noem.

Congresswoman Chellie Pingree (D-ME) is calling on Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Secretary Kristi Noem to provide a full and detailed accounting of the legal basis for arrests made during her agency’s expanded immigration enforcement operation in Maine.  In a letter to Noem on Thursday, PIngree expressed her outrage over the operation, which DHS has disturbingly dubbed “Catch of the Day.”

“While Congress has given the Department of Homeland Security the authority to enforce federal immigration law, that authority is neither unlilmited nor exempt from oversight,” Pingree wrote.  “Enforcement actions that result in hundreds of individuals being abducted, serious and numerous apparent violations of due process rights, and widespread fear in immigrant communities require immediate, forthright answers.”

Pingree is demanding answers about who DHS has detained and why, where they were taken, whether their due process rights are being protecdted and more pressing questions the Administration has so far not answered.

Beyond the conduct of the operation itself, Pingree said DHS’s name for the operation is “dehumanizing, offensive and wholly inappropriate for a federal law enforcement action involving real people, families and communities.”

“Referring to human beings as something to be caught in a net reflects a disurbing disregard for human digity and reinforces the perception that this operation was designed to intimidate and degrade rather than to uphold the law reasonably,” Pingree said.  “Such language is not humorous and not consistent with the Department’s supposed commitment to professionalism and civil rights.”

“Noem didn’t her puppy that she shot because she couldn’t train him due process either,” says this blogger.  “Her callous behavior is not surprising.”