Reacting to increasing reports of Americans being dragged out of cars and arrested by out-of-control ICE agents only to be released later, MS NOW’s Joe Scarborough singled out Supreme Court Justice Brett Kavanaugh for giving them legal cover.
During a segment of the growing public mood about the immigrant snatchings by Department of Homeland Security agents that have communities up in arms, Scarborough claimed the justice and the rest of the conservatives on the court who have kicked the can down the road with a stay will be “haunted” forever for sitting on their hands.
After the Supreme Court heard arguments in the Noem v. Vasquez Perdomo case, Kavanaugh dismissed concerns about random immigration stops, explaining in a concurring opinion, “[R]easonable suspicion means only that immigration officers may briefly stop the individual and inquire about immigration status.”
He then added, “If the person is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, that individual will be free to go after the brief encounter. … If the officers learn that the individual they stopped is a U.S. citizen or otherwise lawfully in the United States, they promptly let the individual go.”
The MS NOW host explained the justice has already been proved wrong.
Pointing to a New York Times report about a woman who was wrongly deported, leaving her two-year-old son behind, Scarborough remarked, “The Times today shows the image of young two-year-old kid being left without his parents. You had Brett Kavanaugh and words — if he does not reverse some words — that will haunt him for the rest of his career, saying, ‘Oh, if you're an American citizen, you have nothing to worry about. Just they might question you, but then they'll let you go.’”
“No, not so.The Chicago Tribune this weekend ... over 100 Americans have been, like, dragged out, thrown into cars. American citizens detained, and they've been treated in a terrible, terrible way.”
He later added, “That's the state of play in the United States and the Supreme Court, the Roberts court, every day they allow that to go by, they are wrapping themselves up in a decision that, while it may not be as dramatic as the Dred Scott decision, this will haunt them and their legacies.”
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