It's not even changing the punishment of DUI. It's change the terms of the terms of the green card. Revoking a green card isn't a criminal process, it's an immigration court one.
Still... normalizing retroactive anything in the legal system. We know how that story ends.
good, breaking the law should be grounds for deportation, especially if the sentence involves jail time.
That said,
would this run afoul of ex post facto?
I think probably not? Just because it's not criminalising anything which I think is what ex post facto protections have been limited to in scope.
This is just changing the visa requirements which have way less legal protection.
Hard to say. Its not making dui a crime and its not raising the punishment for dui per se but for one subset of dui
It's not even changing the punishment of DUI. It's change the terms of the terms of the green card. Revoking a green card isn't a criminal process, it's an immigration court one.
Still... normalizing retroactive anything in the legal system. We know how that story ends.