Re:U.S. Supreme Court Puts Limits on Police Power to Seize P...
by cryptonector on Wednesday February 20, 2019 @11:54PM
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FYI, the term "U.S. persons" == U.S. citizens and permanent residents.
The only rights that permanent residents don't have are: a) the right to vote, b) the right to have their permanent residency not revoked for cause (e.g., committing a serious crime). Permanent residents get to become citizens after some time.
Non-permanent residents have fewer rights, and which rights they don't have is generally a matter of law, not Constitution, except that they have all the rights of Due Process guaranteed by the Constitution (i.e., by far the most important ones for them to have), at least as to criminal prosecutions, and often as to civil suits. A typical example would be the right to keep and bear arms, which non-residents generally do not have in most States. I suppose even First Amendment rights might be curtailed for non-residents, though I suspect at most only freedom of association would be, and only indirectly.
But most of the Bill of Rights (the 4th through the 8th Amendments) deals in Due Process, and these rights are available to all persons in the U.S., except perhaps as to immigrant law itself (e.g., a non-resident alien may have much less recourse to fight deportation than they and anyone else might have to fight a conviction).
The only rights that permanent residents don't have are: a) the right to vote, b) the right to have their permanent residency not revoked for cause (e.g., committing a serious crime). Permanent residents get to become citizens after some time.
Non-permanent residents have fewer rights, and which rights they don't have is generally a matter of law, not Constitution, except that they have all the rights of Due Process guaranteed by the Constitution (i.e., by far the most important ones for them to have), at least as to criminal prosecutions, and often as to civil suits. A typical example would be the right to keep and bear arms, which non-residents generally do not have in most States. I suppose even First Amendment rights might be curtailed for non-residents, though I suspect at most only freedom of association would be, and only indirectly.
But most of the Bill of Rights (the 4th through the 8th Amendments) deals in Due Process, and these rights are available to all persons in the U.S., except perhaps as to immigrant law itself (e.g., a non-resident alien may have much less recourse to fight deportation than they and anyone else might have to fight a conviction).