And this is a new concept you've discovered? Must not be familiar with something called the IRS. They can take, seize or appropriate property, bank accounts or anything else they want without "due process". But I digress. When someone sets out to side step, evade or flaunt the law and then expect some special treatment or dispensation from a long standing process that others have used to successfully enter the country and achieve citizenship, it's difficult to sympathize. Those who are legal citizens or legal residents already get far more from "due process" than the judiciary can provide. But please understand, what I refer to, is immigration, a term that refers to legal entry and naturalization, not lawlessness. And before you get too deep into the protections of "due process", understand too that those who are naturalized have probably forgotten more about the system than we'll know in a hundred years. I wouldn't advise arguing the Constitution with most of them unless you want to be embarrassed.
14th Amendment states: "All persons born or naturalized in the United States and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Notice where it says "All persons born or naturalized." It doesn't say that illegal immigrants have a right to due process. Only those who are naturalized or born here have a right to due process. Is the 14th Amendment followed to the letter? Obviously not. However, the law of the land is the law of the land no matter how you slice it. Many, usually the liberals and most Democrats don't like it and try their best to take it out of context or twist the 14th Amendment to mean something it doesn't but it says what it says. :)
