For the past nine years, progressives have alleged various illegal conduct by Donald Trump, but with scant evidence of direct harm. But Joe Biden, in just four years, allowed, indeed encouraged, a roughly estimated 8 to 10 million illegal immigrants to arrive and then stay in our country, some of whom soon committed violent crimes, including murder, theft, drug trafficking, and juvenile sexual slavery. Besides the psychological and criminal costs, the financial burden on American taxpayers has been in the billions of dollars. But Biden’s immigration policy has nevertheless been lauded by the Left, even though it is taking jobs from poorer, deserving American citizens and straining our welfare system beyond its limits.

Biden was not merely passively at fault. In addition to releasing millions of inadmissible aliens into the United States without adequate screening, he gave around $6 billion to the UN and NGOs for their support of these illegal immigrants. This money, in addition to enriching NGO executives, was often used to transport migrants to their desired American destinations, where they were to be housed, and to advise them on how to beat the legal system. At the same time, thousands of homeless Americans remained on the streets.

In addition to paying these illegal alien supporters, the Biden Administration made it simple and easy for noncitizens to claim asylum through an expedited process. The Biden Administration also secretly flew in just one year 320,000 immigrants from Cuba, Haiti, Nicaragua, and Venezuela into the United States. Then it fed and housed them, sometimes in luxury hotels. Approximately 1.5 million immigrants from these countries have been granted humanitarian “parole” by Biden and remain in the United States.

Biden could do all of this without permission from the courts or Congress. But as President Trump seeks to cure this harmful illegality, his task is overwhelming, given the maze of rights conferred on these immigrants by Congress, often enlarged by judicial decisions. But why should an illegal immigrant have a right to remain in the United States and receive benefits while the U.S. government proceeds with an expensive and time-consuming deportation proceeding? A better question is whether an illegal immigrant, although a “person” entitled to due process, always has a liberty or property interest that due process protects.