apr67 wrote:
I hope that soon civil asset forfeiture will join communism on the dung heap of history. Its not constitutional in the slightest.
Will not happen as long as it is only applied to people that are powerless. If we would use it for trickle down law enforcement I think it could be quite effective. For example, you want to stop illegal immigration? On Wed. go thru a plant, hotel, construction site, and check everybody's papers. Spend Thursday and Friday learning who owns the business, and what else they own. Friday night, a SWAT team comes in the house setting off flash bangs, and waving automatic weapons around the family. Wife and kids, dressed in cheap jumpsuits, out on the street, owner dressed in chains, go to cage. All accounts and other assets now belong to state, unless you can prove that no part of them was paid for by the profits of illegal workers.
This happen once, and reported in WSJ, where other business owners can read, by the next Wednesday no undocumented would be working anywhere in the country.
