Thread: Why doesn't Trump prosecute under section 1324 Title 8 of the US code??

Originally Posted by Captainron

This is what everyone asks and is a sensible question. What has happened is that when illegal immigration advocates want to put anything to a legal challenge they pick courts where they think they can get a favorable opinion----California, New York, Maryland, Washington, etc. Their goal is to give illegals full constitutional rights and they do this by carefully picking their battles and slowly chipping away at the edifice of law. They intimidate officials if they don't have outright sympathetic ones! This is what happened in our state, where they picked a certain case to challenge ICE detainers, and managed to intimidate the majority of county sheriffs to where the latter are afraid to detain an illegal beyond their sentence for fear of being sued.

I like thought experiments, even with the law, so please don't take my reply as sarcastic.

But if I kidnapped someone and brought them to another state, The US Marshall, FBI, State Police, county sheriffs and city cops, Park Rangers, Constables and regular citizens would be trying to catch me. What court could I go to, in order to get a "more favorable" judicial system?

These US Presidents, including the one today and going back as far as you can remember, have you ever heard of anyone being prosecuted under US Code Paragraph 8, Sections 1324, 1325 and 1252c?

I really can't think of anyone that has been convicted of this

Originally Posted by Boomslang

But if I kidnapped someone and brought them to another state, The US Marshall, FBI, State Police, county sheriffs and city cops, Park Rangers, Constables and regular citizens would be trying to catch me. What court could I go to, in order to get a "more favorable" judicial system?

Since you went over state lines, it is a federal matter. And as you say "The US Marshall, FBI, State Police, county sheriffs and city cops, Park Rangers, Constables and regular citizens would be trying to catch me." But that is about apprehension! The question you ask is about prosecution. As we have seen, every judge has a different opinion about what some law means. We have 9 District courts who give opposing opinions. Even the 9 Supreme Justices are not in agreement on many laws.

We are supposed to be "A Nation Of Laws". But we allow courts to make up their own laws, which shouldn't be. But we, as a nation, must agree in order to fix that, and we don't. So we remain an imperfect union!

Originally Posted by Boomslang

These US Presidents, including the one today and going back as far as you can remember, have you ever heard of anyone being prosecuted under US Code Paragraph 8, Sections 1324, 1325 and 1252c?

Laws are meant to be obeyed. Many people don't want a reason to prosecute under them. And when it comes to public employees, they treat each other as royalty, which the Founders frowned on. So they give each other a pass. Again, as long as we allow them the power, they will abuse it. Once we start holding them accountable under these laws, the need to hold them accountable under these laws will go away. I think if Nixon had gone to jail, we wouldn't have had to Impeach Clinton. Knowing he would end up in jail, he wouldn't have done most of what he did. But from the time he was AG in Arkansas, he felt he was above the law. And nobody held him accountable.