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As the title of this video suggests, we are discussing well, “rights as what?” as it pertains to US Immigration. I thought of making this video because recently I have seen a lot of talk about people getting deported and the various rights associated with being deported. 

Look, there is a scene in the movie Bridge of Spies, and I made another video - it is a much longer one - where I actually rift off of the same sort of meme if you will. It's a scene from the film where basically Tom Hanks' character is trying to defend this spy and he basically says, the spy should be accorded Fourth Amendment privileges and immunities under our Constitution because there was a prior court case that said even though people were illegal immigrants they should have been allowed some sort of due process rights under the Constitution. And the Judge turns around and he says, "hey this person is like a spy; he intentionally came to America to be here illegally to spy on us; he's a threat to our way of life. "Right as what?" basically - he says that twice - "rights as what? Americans?" It's a good point, okay. 

I'm not saying that somebody that gets apprehended in the United States who is out of lawful status in the United States should necessarily be sort of summarily treated like a hardened criminal or anything of this nature and be granted no due process at all. Again, underlying facts dictate analysis, and making blanket statements is not a good thing. That said I think it's worthy of bringing up the point again though that "rights as what?" To compare apples to apples, a United States citizen is lawfully in the United States versus somebody who is not legally in the United States and may be intentionally illegally present in the United States, again should those people be accorded the same rights, legally? I mean I think clearly not. And let's be clear, they aren't because they can be deported. A US citizen cannot be deported. That's not possible under the law, in fact it's unconstitutional; it's a violation of a variety of different things, most notably privileges and immunities of US citizenship, that being the point, isn't it? You're talking about US Citizenship at the end of the day, and I have a hard time saying well they have the exact same rights as somebody who has clearly vested privileges and immunities.

Where that leaves us, I don't know. But that being said, I am sure we are going to see more on this issue as time moves forward, especially through this summer.