I wonder, again, at the unalienable rights mentioned in the Declaration of Independence and how they apply to those of us arriving from south of the border.
These rights come from God, not from government, and government cannot (or should not) take them from us. A government might make a law taking away our right to life (on American soil), and that law might suggest we will lose our liberty if we come (be deported), and it might deprive us of the pursuit of happiness (which is what most immigrants come for), but that does not mean the law is right and just.
We should wonder about laws that take away liberties, even if we are not the ones affected. Rather than being satisfied that it is not our freedoms being lost, but those of someone else, we should hold that if freedoms are taken from one, it is an assault on the freedoms of us all.
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