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.”<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Unless, of course, Mr. Demapan believes the CNMI is not part of the United States of America.<\/p>\n
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.<\/p>\n
Loida Nicolas-Lewis<\/strong> Press secretary Angel Demapan seems uninformed that what I said during the radio interview was…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-16548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-letters-to-the-editor"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=16548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/16548\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=16548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=16548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saipantribune.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=16548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nChair, US Pinoys for Good Governance<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"