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I think a lot of people believe that there ought to be a statute of limitations on immigration; if you've been peacefully living and working in the country for many years, what's the actual public purpose of deporting someone? Including breaking up a family?

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The purpose of deporting them is the same as punishing any other crime: to disincentivize committing it.

Immigration is arguably even more important to enforce in this manner because of the clear-cut legal alternative.

> Immigration is arguably even more important to enforce in this manner because of the clear-cut legal alternative.

We're talking about an immigration policy that is now rounding people up at their legal immigration appointments. This is not about maintaining a legal alternative, and to argue that it is feels disingenuous.

Under expedited removal, an established legal process, these undocumented immigrants are being deported, and are free to pursue their asylum claim in the meantime.

It’s disingenuous to argue that they have any more right to be here than any other undocumented immigrant, just because they happened to be detained at a courthouse.

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