This is how a democracy dies

[J_William_Ryan]

8. It's codification of unitary executive dogma.

The president is not subject to the law; the president is above the law; the president may ignore the rule of law – in this case the right to due process.

It also runs counter to Plyler v. Doe, the 1982 decision striking down state laws that deny funding to public schools which provide education to undocumented migrant children, reaffirming that those undocumented are entitled to the right to due process and equal protection of the law.