“Suppose I'm a brown person walking down the street, and I'm either a citizen, or a legal resident. I get stopped by ICE, who accuses me of being here illegally and will deport me. If, as you suggest, people here not legally don't get due process, then how do I prove that I am entitled to due process?”
How does anyone prove who they are? I’m really not sure the scenario you describe is happening at any significant rate. Not to be flippant, for those that have fallen victim to this, I strongly sympathize w/ them & I have read about some examples. But are you saying that ICE agents are randomly stopping and frisking any “brown person” they see and accusing them of being an illegal and threatening deportation w/o asking for ID? Let’s just say it is happening, which I doubt, why can’t they just show the ICE agent their ID? They run the name on the ID and there you have it, you’re either in the system as a citizen or legal resident or here legally (work or student visa), or you’re not. I’ll say this, if ICE is randomly corralling up “brown” people and accusing them of being illegals & threatening deportation, and it’s not an honest mistake (ie people that have had a criminal record in the past but have since been absolved but have fallen victim to clerical errors, mistaken identity, wrong or old address, etc...), that’s a big problem, but I doubt that’s what’s happening in terms of policy implementation. Fixing the system will be messy & there will be growing pains & roadblocks & f¥(kups along the way, but continuing down the path that has put us in this mess is insane. Something needs to be done & ignoring existing laws is no answer. That’s what has created this mess in the first place.