Because gang affiliation is not illegal, only criminal actions associated with gang activity are. For US citizens, police can’t just arrest someone because they think they’re a Blood or Crip, they need some other crime to charge them with.
With illegal immigrants, the govt can legally deport someone for any rationale they wish, as the person has no legal right to be here. In this case, gang affiliation is just a pretext, and not the legal reason for deportation (thus not required to prove it in trial).
Although I would argue this is limited to deportation only, and the US govt should not send illegal immigrants to foreign prisons without a standard of proof of real criminal activity. Sending people to prison with no due process is contrary to our founding principles, even if non-citizens.
But ironically, gang affiliation is illegal in El Salvador…
It’s just so wild to see these movements see saw, it feels like just yesterday that conservatives were boycotting Disney and the left was gloating.
Just incredible. After posting a meme blaming Charlie Kirk for his own murder, they post another a few hours later applauding Democrats for their civility.
Also, if you look at the Occupy Democrats timeline, their posts “denouncing political violence” were variations on “no one should be shot…BUT here’s a quote from Kirk showing he’s a terrible person.” Or sometimes they’d leave the first part out altogether and just attack him. There are no posts denouncing violence without qualifiers trying to gin up their base.
