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The Fourteenth Amendment’s text protects “persons” from a state denying equal protection, and U.S. courts have repeatedly applied that protection to non‑citizens — including unlawfully present immigra...
A president who used the machinery of the Department of Justice to order prosecutions of political opponents would not stand beyond the Constitution: such conduct could violate the Fifth and Fourteent...
(or “illegal”) noncitizens are not invisible under the law: many constitutional protections—most notably and equal protection—apply to “persons” in U.S. jurisdiction, a principle and legal experts hav...
U.S. courts have repeatedly treated undocumented immigrants as “persons” entitled to many 14th Amendment protections—most notably equal protection and due process—while also allowing significant immig...