Since when doesn't a sovereign nation have the absolute right to secure her borders? Spending a differing amount of effort investigating people who "look mexican" versus investigating those who "look canadian" is an equal protection issue. Meanwhile, simply kidnapping someone's family rather than deporting them as a more unified group is cruel and unusual... so, since ratification. Meanwhile, borders are a fairly recent invention, the work of a single bored mapmaker in the late 1600s, I believe, so there would have been a whopping 200 years out of all of human history in which it was legal... except, of course, for the earlier thoughts surrounding equality before the law, say in greek philosophy, leaving you, well... ...with the fact that the right has never, ever existed as you present it. Ever. It might become legal if you spent a bit more time investigating random "visually-apparent suspected canadians," though. Here's a question : since when has rape been a legal punishment in the US? |