The judge emphasizes and insists on the difference between civil regulation and criminal punishment. 2/
![…determination or bond hearing. This is not what civil enforcement looks like in a humane system
of government under law.
The Constitution does not permit such cruelty as a condition of civil enforcement. It does
not permit the government to strip people of dignity simply because they lack lawful status. It has
long been settled that noncitizens, "even [those] whose presence in this country is unlawful, have
long been recognized as "persons' guaranteed due process of law."*](https://files.mastodon.social/media_attachments/files/116/050/532/457/834/259/original/f2c8a7b3137c8b5c.jpeg)
“At bottom, this case turns on a simple but fundamental principle. In a government of laws,
words matter. Statutes derive their authority from the language Congress enacted and not from the
government’s improper efforts to expand that language to justify detention without process.” 🔥3/
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