You aren't granting freedom if you say someone must go to another country to get it.
There stands a promise in the Declaration of Independence, that all men are created equal and granted certain unalienable rights, and that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness.
We tell them -- these immigrants -- we are not depriving them of life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness just because we deport them back to their countries of origin. We tell them those rights are still theirs, it's just that they must go back to Honduras to enjoy them. We tell them that being removed from American soil does not take away their unalienable rights one iota.
I would ask, America. is this so? If your Fourteenth Amendment says all people are granted life, liberty and property, then who is it granting these things to, and in what nation is it saying they are to enjoy these privileges?
It says, "any person." That means everyone -- citizen or not.
The Constitution governs the United States, not El Salvador, Guatemala or Honduras. If it grants life, liberty and property, it must follow that the recipient is being given those privileges in the United States, not elsewhere.
You don't grant a freedom, and then tell that person, "Oh, but you must go elsewhere to enjoy it."
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