In a 7-2 decision last month, the Supreme Court ruled that asylum seekers in the United States

who have had their claims rejected in informal summary proceedings are out of luck. No contesting the

denial, no habeas corpus. Return to your country, stat. Even if you never got a fair hearing on your claim. Here's ACLU attorney Lee Gallant,

who argued the case on behalf of the asylum seekers back in March.

If the Supreme Court rules for the government, it will mean the first time in the history

of this country that an immigrant could be forcibly taken and sent back without any federal court

ever at any time looking at the

legality of the deportation.

No matter, as Justice Sonia Sotomayor noted in her fiery dissent, whether the denial of

asylum claims are, quote, arbitrary or irrational or contrary to governing law, it was yet another blow to the rights of immigrants

in the U.S. during the Trump presidency. Those assaults on the rights of immigrants have been called

unconstitutional, reckless, deadly, and immoral. But are they un-American? Last summer, acting

citizenship and immigration services director Ken Cuccinelli was asked about that on NPR's Morning Edition.

Would you also agree that Emma Lazarus's words etched on the Statue of Liberty, Give Me Your Tired, Your Poor, are also part of the American ethos?

They certainly are.

You're tired and you're poor who can stand on their own two feet and who will not become a

public charge.

That plaque was put on the Statue of Liberty at almost the same time as the first public

charge law was passed.

Very interesting timing.

It's not the first time that a member of Trump's

team was slapped with that line from the poem, The New Colossus. What you're proposing,

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