Subject: Re: Wonderful Meditation by Jonathan Last
the overwhelming majority of their actual detentions are of people they are lawfully empowered to detain.

They use unlawful means to detain and deport people, whether or not those people are here lawfully. Every person in the United States, no matter their immigration status, has the same civil rights, including the right of Habeas Corpus. If a judge has not issued a deportation order for a person, they have a right to be represented and to appear before a judge before being deported.