President Donald Trump has been carrying out his deportation plans forcefully and rapidly, pleasing his base while alarming some advocates who say the administration is ignoring due process rights of deportees. Recent high-profile deportation cases that have attracted the legal services of well-funded liberal immigration groups have put a spotlight on due process and how much a person living in the country illegally should receive.
The Supreme Court has repeatedly affirmed that the Constitution extends due process to anyone on U.S. soil, but illegal immigrants do not have the same rights as citizens to it.
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