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Originally Posted by Bullitt
The concept of habeaus corpus applies to all human beings, but the problem is how
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the U.S. enforce adherance to it on those who are not U.S. citizens?
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The Constitution applies to the US government, wherever it operates. The Bill of Rights is not a list of things US citizens can do, it's a list of things the US government can't do. If it happens on US soil, they don't even have the flimsy Guantanimo excuse.
On the other hand, the guy was probably within his rights while on his property. Especially in Texas, there is a lot of latitude when it comes to protecting your property. He's not the US government, but he handed the people over to them. Any habeas issues would come up with how they handled it.
On the gripping hand, what he did on US government land was illegal, and would have been illegal even if the family he terrorized had turned out to have been illegal immigrants.