I was once, but am no longer stunned by the ignorance of Americans who should know better. So this guy says that since one administration violated established law, then another administration has a green light to do the same. I'm thankful we have the Constitution, otherwise, it would appear that mob rule would be rampant.
Quote: "This Court has since repeatedly declared, in no uncertain terms, that “once an alien enters the country, the legal circumstance changes” because our Constitution provides due process protections to “
all‘persons’ within the United States, including aliens,
whether their presence here is lawful, unlawful, temporary, or permanent.” Zadvydas v. Davis, 533 U.S. 678, 693 (2001); see also Mathews v. Diaz, 426 U.S. 67, 77 (1976) (“There are literally millions of aliens within the jurisdiction of the United States. The Fifth Amendment . . . protects every one of these persons . . . . Even one whose presence in this country is unlawful, involuntary, or transitory is entitled to that constitutional protection.”)."
"James Madison wrote that “[a]liens are not more parties to the laws than they are parties to the Constitution; yet it will not be disputed that, as they owe, on one hand, a temporary obedience, they are entitled, in return, to their protection and advantage.” Madison’s Report on the Virginia Resolutions, in IV THE DEBATES IN THE SEVERAL STATE CONVENTIONS, ON THE ADOPTION OF THE FEDERAL CONSTITUTION 546, 556 (Jonathan Elliot ed., 1836)."
BTW, this Amicus Brief was published in January 2020, no doubt over problems with Trump's first term.