Freedom endures only when it is shared

When a nation starts excluding a portion of its population from freedom, it limits its calling as a free nation. We may look back to how we were a slave state initially, and correctly conclude that in this way of thinking, we were not fully a free state. We did not share freedom with the black.
But, at least the overall trajectory of our nation was going in the right direction in those early years. We established in our Constitution a date that freedom for the slave could be considered. There were times when we did not behave as a free nation, though: I  think of the Alien and Sedition Acts.
Today? Do we say the trajectory of freedom is going the wrong direction? Or are these but moments like we had back then when we passed the Alien and Sedition Acts?
I speak of the immigrant, for one. I also consider efforts to rein in our press.
The question of the immigrant can be considered on two fronts. One, whether we should have basically free borders, a concept that is considered preposterous in our day. Two, should they be entitled to a judicial system same as the rest of us once they do come.
It is on the second point that we are currently seeing incursions into the freedom of our nation. It is on this point that we are showing an increasing tendency not to share those freedoms which we call our own.
We cut off their access to a court trial in many ways. Is this not wrong? Do we not fear for our nation in what is being done? When they follow our laws, and present themselves at the border for trial, what do we do? To begin with, we hedge up the way against them that they should even reach that point. We under-man our border stations, so that only a limited number of new immigrants can even begin the process. We tell them to wait in Mexico. When they do arrive, the process is long and drawn out.
Now, with President Trump, there are rumblings that we should do away with the court system for immigrants. I think his threats of this may go no where, that they were just a week or so of ranting. But, I marvel that the ranting even came, that such a move was even considered.
We toss them into jail more than before. Catch-and-release, we yell, and greet them with a prison the moment they ask for freedom.
And, most recently, we seek to apply a fee. No more application for asylum without paying a fee. Would we do the same with our own legal system? Would we say, You can only have a court trial if you you pay a fee to have one? Otherwise, you are condemned as charged. If the asylum seeker is not granted a trial, he must remain out of our country, or be deported out, that is?
When a court system is only within the reach of the rich, it does not serve the poor and oppressed. Can we not see what an injustice we are creating?