To the editor,

You do not need to ask the founders whether they thought the rights of due process and restrictions on government overreach were worth dying on. They spilled their blood for those rights.

Now we have to read conservatives arguing that those rights are not worthy of that blood and sacrifice. The defense of Abrego Garcia is not about Abrego Garcia. It is about every American’s right to due process. The same as the Black Lives Matter protests were not about George Floyd, but about every Americans right to not be killed in the street for a suspected crime without trial or process. Same as the Civil Rights movement was not about MLK or Rosa Parks or anyone of the individual people who suffered under Jim Crow and inequal distributions of justice that occurred based on skin color, but about every Americans right to be represented fairly and equally by their government, justice system, and public services.

It is astonishing to me this pivot conservatives have taken against constitutional rights when it is their tribe who is restricting them. If Abrego Garcia was here illegally then prove it through due process. Not the whim of a dictator or the screaming of a mob. People need to look at themselves and ask if the constitution is the hill worth dying on.

I know my answer, but it is disheartening when I read that others find the constitution not worthy anymore because their demagogue and hatred is more important to hold onto.

Jacob Proue

Spring Valley