Uninformed and ignorant

Posted on Oct 27 2011

Press secretary Angel Demapan seems uninformed that what I said during the radio interview was not an opinion but was a provision of the Constitution of the United States: “No person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property without due process of law.”

Each of the workers affected by the Nov 27, 2011, deadline has the right to due process of law—a right to have his/her day in court. In this case, the Immigration Court. It is not my opinion; “due process of law” is the bedrock of democracy in this great nation.

Unless, of course, Mr. Demapan believes the CNMI is not part of the United States of America.

By the way, I have not represented a single client but the U.S. government since 1978 when I became a general attorney of the Immigration and Naturalization Service. To jump to a hasty conclusion that I was seeking clients during my radio interview is the most ignorant argument I have ever heard.

[B]Loida Nicolas-Lewis[/B] [I]Chair, US Pinoys for Good Governance[/I]

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