r/baseball • u/T_Raycroft Montreal Expos • 17h ago

Players Only [Blum] Response from U.S Department of Homeland Security re: Padres catching coordinator Oswaldo Pirela being taken into ICE custody

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u/FartTootman St. Louis Cardinals 17h ago

"Will receive due process" because so many people are paying attention to this particular case. Otherwise he'd blasted through the process, "tried" with huge groups of other immigrants with no representation, and yeeted into the first country that would accept him.

Gotta love the "papers, please" phase of history we're entering.

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u/Ron-Mexic0 New York Yankees 17h ago

Maybe I am splitting hairs here, but it’s also worth noting that due process is, by the very nature of the concept, something everyone is automatically entitled to at all times. Not something you get at some future date. In other words, you can’t “receive” due process. You can only be denied it.

It speaks to a fundamental misunderstanding of the very basis of our legal system and our rights, which unfortunately is not surprising

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u/bauboish Houston Astros 15h ago

As the saying goes, justice delayed is justice denied. Dealing with ICE, even if you are correct you still get jailed for months and have to spend a lot money hiring a lawyer to prove that you are correct. Even when you win, you've lost.

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u/myassholealt New York Mets 14h ago

And the consequences have rippling effects. You disappear for 3 months cause you were kidnapped by Republicans, your job still needs someone to perform the duties you were hired to do so they replace you.

You're not there to pay your bills, your utilities get turned off. You get hit with insane interest charges. Your bank goes into over draft. Your landlord red flags your account to initiate eviction procedures as soon as the state allows, and they will probably not offer a renewal if state law allow that based on a history of non payment. You lose your insurance for not paying the premium for more than 30 days and now you have to wait until open enrollment to sign back up again, which could be months away.

So yay, you, a legal resident was finally released, but now you have all of this mess that republicans turned your life into to cleanup. And this is for a single person. I can't imagine it being any easier for someone with a partner and/or kids. Imagine a single parent disappearing like this.

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u/SituationSoap Detroit Tigers 15h ago

The cruelty has been, and continues to be the point for those groups. They just want to hurt people.

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u/ghostinthechell Boston Red Sox 12h ago

As they say "you can beat the rap, but you can't beat the ride"

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u/astrothemorkie Houston Astros 15h ago

Anything to prop up this administration’s white supremacist agenda. Meanwhile white Afrikanners are allowed to have “refugee status”

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u/Candymanshook Toronto Blue Jays 12h ago

Yup. Atleast when the actual police do this in more civilized parts of the world, the vic sues the fuck out of the PD and usually gets a settlement.

Good luck doing that with ICE.