Washington's King County seeks to block ICE from using its airport to deport immigran

AZRWinger · #1 (**permalink**) 06-06-2019, 10:30 AM

Resistance Democrats carry on endlessly virtue signaling about their unreserved fealty to the rule of law. Of course when convenient the rule of law is ignored.

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Over the past eight years, roughly 34,000 immigrants have been deported on hundreds of flights leaving from Washington state’s King County International Airport, or Boeing Field. Now in what is believed to be a first in the nation, Dow Constantine, the county’s executive, has signed an order seeking to ban any further flights by Immigration and Customs Enforcement through the airport.

Some 100,000 undocumented immigrants annually are torn from their families and deported through ICE Air—yes, that’s sadly a real thing—a division of ICE that charters planes to fly deportees back to their home countries, at a cost of about $7,785 per flight hour. In King County International Airport alone, a new report states that ICE Air has chartered nearly 500 flights since 2010.

Of course the violation of the rule of law is justified by the histrionics declaring deportees are uniformly "ripped from the arms of their families."

But don't worry, blocking enforcement of the rule of law is justified unlike our lawless President.

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Under the executive order, “new contracts would prohibit those companies from servicing flights transporting immigrant detainees.” But, it’s not as simple as it sounds, because ”the county has accepted grants that forbid it from discriminating against any aircraft, according to the FAA.” Airport director John Parrott tells The Seattle Times that “’there’s a very subtle nuance with the FAA.’ The agency does not allow ‘unjust discrimination’ but does allow ‘just discrimination,’ he said, meaning that the county has to have a reason.”

The county believes that reason is the devastating human and fiscal costs of deportations, which “raise deeply troubling human rights concerns ... inconsistent with the values of King County, including separations of families, increases of racial disproportionality in policing, deportations of people into unsafe situations in other countries, and constitutional concerns of due process,” according to the executive order

Simply declare yourself the great defender of so-called human rights then exercise your partisan politics in direct defiance of Federal law.

https://m.dailykos.com/stories/2019/...ort-immigrants

cnredd · #2 (**permalink**) 06-06-2019, 12:23 PM

It's amazing how the Dems repeatedly tell us Trump isn't above the law and then applaud when local politicians thumb their nose at it...

jimbo · #3 (**permalink**) 06-06-2019, 12:58 PM

There are several nearby suitable airports, including a couple nearby across the borders. Give them what they want. No more money spent, and no federal funds to uncooperative localities and states.

ShivaTD · #4 (**permalink**) 06-06-2019, 07:38 PM

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Originally Posted by AZRWinger

Simply declare yourself the great defender of so-called human rights then exercise your partisan politics in direct defiance of Federal law.

Excuse me by Human Rights are actually protected by the US Constitution and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (approved by the United States).

Can you please provide a reference to the federal law that authorizes ICE to use Boeing Field? I'd like to read that one.

Let me ask one simple question. Are those arrested and deported from Seattle being provided with access to legal counsel before they're put on a plane at King County International Airport or are they denied any legal representation during this process?

When we talk about the Rule of Law it's implicit that a person has a right to legal counsel during all stages of any legal process. Is ICE ensuring that these individuals have access to legal counsel?

AZRWinger · #5 (**permalink**) 06-06-2019, 10:08 PM

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Originally Posted by ShivaTD

Excuse me by Human Rights are actually protected by the US Constitution and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (approved by the United States).

Can you please provide a reference to the federal law that authorizes ICE to use Boeing Field? I'd like to read that one.

Let me ask one simple question. Are those arrested and deported from Seattle being provided with access to legal counsel before they're put on a plane at King County International Airport or are they denied any legal representation during this process?

When we talk about the Rule of Law it's implicit that a person has a right to legal counsel during all stages of any legal process. Is ICE ensuring that these individuals have access to legal counsel?

ICE is carrying out its role enforcing Federal law. They have contracted with private companies to provide support services for flights. The people being transported have outstanding orders of deportation. There is nothing illegal in what ICE is doing. The King county commissioner is acting out of political animus toward ICE.

Using your theory the police couldn't use public transportation including roads to transport convicted criminals.

Manitou · #6 (**permalink**) 06-07-2019, 09:58 AM

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Originally Posted by ShivaTD

Excuse me by Human Rights are actually protected by the US Constitution and the United Nations Universal Declaration of Human Rights (approved by the United States).

It gets tiring reading from crocks of shlt. The United Nations scam artists have only one goal--to line their wallets and purses with as much money as they can rip off the world.

DISCLAIMER--"Crocks of shlt" refers to just about all your posts.

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