16 illegals sue Arizona rancher

[Bullitt]

The concept of habeaus corpus applies to all human beings, but the problem is how or should the U.S. enforce adherance to it on those who are not U.S. citizens?

[Happy Monkey]

Originally Posted by Bullitt

The concept of habeaus corpus applies to all human beings, but the problem is how

Completely

or should

Yes.

the U.S. enforce adherance to it on those who are not U.S. citizens?

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.

[TheMercenary]

Originally Posted by Happy Monkey

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.

I would agree with that much. Although I would think that the writ of hc is more about what the state can and cannot do, not what someone can or cannot do to others on their own property. I would guess they could try to charge him with unlawful detention or something along those lines.