Divine Wind
Platinum Member
Correct illegals have Constitutional rights, but they don't have a right to break the law or remain in the US.Yes, illegal aliens have constitutional rightsConstitution doesn't play here, they are here illegally so they aren't Americans, so sorry the constitution doesn't apply to illegals.
"The critics all claim that undocumented workers or immigrants or migrants — whichever label is the flavor of the day — don't have legal rights because they are lawbreakers by entering the country illegally and owe no loyalty to the United States. They claim that only U.S. citizens (natural born or naturalized) are protected by the Constitution.
"The critics are not only wrong — they are really, truly and sincerely wrong.
"The U.S. Supreme Court settled the issue well over a century ago.
"But even before the court laid the issue to rest, a principal author of the Constitution, James Madison, the second president of the United States, wrote: 'that as they [aliens], owe, on the one hand, a temporary obedience, they are entitled, in return, to their [constitutional] protection and advantage.'
"More recently, the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in Zadvydas v. Davis (2001) that 'due process' of the 14th Amendment applies to all aliens in the United States whose presence maybe or is 'unlawful, involuntary or transitory.'"
Would you deny the victims of human trafficking found within the US the protection of the US Constitution?
Also, those human traffickers in the US have rights too. Everyone does, but like the illegals, no one has a right to flaunt the law.