If congress had properly managed immigration in the first place we wouldn't be in a position where the nation is in danger from within. Since when has the executive branch had an interest in immigration? Or congress for that matter.

We are being played for fools. One points the finger at the other while they both litigate even the meaning of single syllable words in order to confuse the public further. The idea that parsing words is the job of the supreme court is being pushed up our noses. The meaning of words at the time they were written is well documented.

This issue is less about who has what power than one where the public is being fed another partisan line of parsed language with half truths and deceit buried in sympathy as the immigration situation climbs to be Americas biggest threat in history.

Alien, not of this land

Illegal, NOT legal

Constitutional rights, for citizens

Citizens, legally entitled to constitutional guarantees.

If this fellow hadn't been here illegally the issue of language wouldn't be a legal defense. Rape and murder are not acceptable in any place on this planet. Well, excluding certain ideologies the west seems to want to court favor with rather than extinguish.

Did he do it? He confessed!

As an illegal he is not entitled to every protection of our legal system. It is simply impractical to offer such things to the populations of the world when it would behoove a foreign power to cause our justice system to become bogged down while the nation grapple with threats to its existence that historically required suspension of many of those very rights simply to survive.

If Mexico wants to pay Barry Scheck to run the DNA in front of a review court, let them. Otherwise Mexico has no right liberating a convicted killer. Sympticos have no right defending unlawful entrants by demanding full constitutional protections for them either.

Maybe death is too permanent a sentence but then again. if Mexico wants to commute that to life then pay for the incarceration, be responsible to your citizens and tell them we have laws over here that you may not benefit from if you simply sneak in.

Well, two, actually...

Solution One: Commute the vicious little Wetback felon's sentence to life in prison, and put him in General Population. Make sure it's well known he's a child rapist/murderer. Sit back and wait.

Solution Two: Drive him out to the desert outside Brownsville, about 1/2 mile from the Mexican border. Turn him loose. Tell him he has five minutes to get across the border before the snipers start shooting. Give him five minutes, then tell the snipers to start shooting.

Since neither of these is a GUARANTEED death sentence, I think either one will do nicely to fulfill the terms of the UN's little tribunal.

Ah, the issue is the treaty. Not whether this evil piece of filth is entitled to constitutional rights, but whether the treaty was violated and, if so, if Texas must comply with the ICJ ruling.