Due process is not a one-way open borders ratchet

Published April 17, 2025 12:00am ET



Former President Joe Biden admitted over 1.4 million illegal immigrants into the United States through both his CBP One app and Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela, or CHNV, parole programs. An estimated 4 million more illegal immigrants were arrested while illegally crossing the southern border and then released on parole into the U.S. None of these migrants received a thorough background check, nor were they screened for valid asylum claims. Yet now, Democratic activist judges demand that each of them be given full due process protections before their parole may be revoked.

Neither the Constitution nor federal law supports these expansive due process claims. Biased Democratic judges are trying to disable the federal government so it cannot enforce immigration law by flooding an overwhelmed system with specious asylum claims. The Trump administration has every right, in fact a duty, to fight these rulings all the way to the Supreme Court, where it should win — and we are confident that it will.

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