More Meaningful Voices than Mine Call for Due Process

   My voice is not alone. There are better positioned and more more considered voices calling on us to give the migrants their due process.
   "The Immigration and Nationality Act states that any immigrant who enters the United States, 'whether or not at a designated port of arrival,' may apply for asylum. Yet the federal government is not prepared to handle the large number of asylum-seekers who legally come here," writes Bob Carlson in a letter to the New York Times. Bob Carlson is president of the American Bar Association.
   "Our immigration legal system in underfunded and undermanned. We need additional judges and support staff to eliminate the backlog of more than 700,000 cases in immigration courts. Nothing should be done to impede access to counsel or diminish due process of law for people seeking asylum."
   And, in another letter, in the same Dec. 9 New York Times:
  "I am particularly concerned to see government efforts to weaken due-process rights. Migrants, like everyone in America, deserve determinations of their claims by independent, impartial and fair procedures." The writer? Ramsey Clark, attorney general in the Johnson administration.