During the Joe Biden administration, the Left and its media allies tried to erase the line between legal and illegal aliens, calling all aliens “noncitizens.” Now they’re attempting to confuse the distinction between criminal and civil proceedings and rights regarding deportable aliens to stoke opposition to the Donald Trump administration’s actions.

In so doing, the Left is using Kilmar Abrego Garcia as their poster child to demand “more due process.” It’s time to correct this intended confusion and show just how much due process aliens receive.

When an alien becomes deportable—either because they entered the U.S. illegally, overstayed their temporary visa, committed a crime, committed fraud, participated in terrorist activity, or other reasons—U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement charges the alien with ground(s) of deportability, which initiates removal proceedings with the Justice Department’s administrative immigration court system.

These are civil proceedings, not criminal. The administrative immigration judges are Justice Department employees in the executive branch; they are not federal judges under the Article III Judiciary of the U.S. Constitution.

That means deportable aliens in deportation proceedings do not have the same rights as a person in a........

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