Tiffany Cross on Deported Gang Member: ‘If He’s Not a Citizen and He’s Not Afforded Due Process, Then None of Us Are Citizens’

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CROSS: "And I have to say, even outside the legalese of this, it is just terrifying to us as human beings. I don‘t think this is an issue, a political issue, I don‘t think this is an issue where we can have, you know, this side says this and this side says this. We have to look at, if he‘s not a citizen and he‘s not afforded due process, then none of us are citizens. What is to stop this administration from me walking out of this studio tonight and me saying something that they don‘t like and them grabbing me and saying, 'Well, you‘re not a citizen?' Well, how do you know? Because I‘ve not been afforded due process. What is stopping them from deporting me into this El Salvador prison, where there are thousands of people locked up without due process? Our own State Department warned about Bukele, the president of El Salvador, negotiating with gangs, doing nefarious things there. And so the fact that we‘re sitting back, allowing this to happen and discussing this as though it‘s a political issue, this is a humanitarian issue. And when you look at the habits of dictators, when you look at the behavior of Orban, when you look at the behavior of Erdogan in Turkey, when you look at the behavior of Putin, they do all these various things. They go after the higher education system.”