America's leaders are lucky that they will not be arrested and persecuted for crimes against humanity

(Trent Nelson | Die Salt Lake Tribune) People gather in Wallace F. Bennett Federal Building to return in Salt Lake City in Salt Lake Lake City on Wednesday, April 16, 2025 to bring back the rejection of the Trump government.

By Robert C. Steiner | The public forum

| May 4, 2025, 12:00 p.m.

Refugees in Utah, who are right -wing and tax -paid members of our municipalities in the neighborhood of MillCreek or customers of Catholic community services who live on the Wasatch front. They also live with fear of arbitrary measures by the Trump administration. The Supreme Court urged President Trump to “facilitate” the return of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, and he ignores the court. Hundreds of others were also deported to El Salvador despite the district court in Washington. Dc. We understand that these distances were without claims to “proper legal process”. So our refugees feel bad in Utah, told the least.

In order to underline the moral severity of the situation for all of us, let us understand that there is more at stake than even the clause of the fifth application application for the US constitution. Although the United States in 2002 withdrawn from the responsibility of the International Criminal Court, the crimes defined in Article 7 of the Rome Act are crime against humanity and they are still in the books. The crimes described there include:

“1. (D) Deportation or forced transmission of the population”, which is defined: “2 (d)” Deportation or forced transfer of the population “forced postponement of the people who were legally available due to exclusion or other forced acts from the area in which they were legally available, without reasons that were permissible under international law,;”

Other crimes against humanity listed are:

We are lucky that the United States will no longer sign the Rome Act because we would have the unpleasant situation in which our President, Foreign Minister, Attorney General and several other cabinet officers and consultants would be arrested and persecuted for crimes against humanity. This is what we get in addition to the outrageous disregard for our constitution and the proper procedural clause. The proper procedural clause should protect people from such crimes, but let us know that crimes have been committed. These are violations of human rights, crimes against humanity. May our refugees in Utah make no victims.

Robert C. Steiner, Salt Lake City

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