The uneven application of due process threatens the Trump administration’s illegal immigration deportation efforts. Ensuring that due process – or the rule of law – applies to everyone helps make government serve the people. Thus, any undermining of the rule of law should concern us all. So it is with current immigration deportation efforts. But insisting on due process after ignoring the law only further diminishes Americans’ respect for the law.

U.S. immigration policy involves limited legal immigration and extensive illegal but tolerated immigration. This can be contrasted with two alternatives: limited and strictly enforced legal immigration and mass, legal immigration, perhaps even open borders.

Our immigration system diminishes respect for the law. Many government officials must ig

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