Freedoms should not be Taken Away unless Crimes are Committed

   "I've got the answer, ma'am," The Immigrant said as his public defender entered his jail cell. "I know what you can argue to get me off."
   "What would that be?" the lady asked.
   "The only time you have the right to take away freedom is when a crime is committed," The Immigrant said. "You punish someone by taking their freedoms away. But, you don't take away  freedoms unless they do commit a crime."
   "Oh, my dear friend, we have already been over this," the lady said, cupping her hands over her eyes as if in frustration. "You know, surely, that you did commit a crime. Crossing into America is a crime."
   "Well, consider this, then," The Immigrant went on. "I hadn't committed any crime when they made it illegal for me to come. They took away my rights before I committed the crime. If we're saying you can't take away a person's freedoms until they commit a crime -- and I am -- then they got a little antsy and did it a little early."
   The lady again cupped her hands, this time holding them waist high. In teeter-totter, or juggling fashion, she lifted one hand while dropping the other, as if her hands were a balance, weighing justice.
   "Well, I will consider this," she said.
   The Immigrant looked at her. "Not all countries do it this way," he said. "Some countries take away freedoms on the whim of their dictators. Kings take away freedoms whenever they want." He paused, then continued. "And, notice this: When they take away the freedoms of others, they usually do it based on what is best for them, and what they want, and what will serve them the best. They hurt others to benefit themselves."
   He paused again, then proceeded again. "Can you see that is pretty much what is happening here? In America, they say I can't come because I'll ruin their economy."
   One more pause, then on he went. "In a free country, you don't take away freedoms unless a crime has been committed. Call it a principle of freedom, because it is. Kings and queens and nations of tyranny can do things differently, but a free nation should be true to the principles that govern freedom. This is one of those principles."
   The lady defender jumped to her feet, and punched her hand forward. It was as if she held a sword in her fist and she was thrusting it forward as if to commence a fight.
   Lady Justice can win those fights.