This is – or should be – the bottom line of any resistance to the ongoing crackdowns on the rights of foreigners in the US, whether they're pro-Palestinian protestors or Venezuelan migrants:

Absolutely everyone has an absolute right to due process.

This is the principle at stake.

Don't be tricked into arguing about whether the accusations against these people are right or wrong: that's a secondary issue, and if you turn this into an argument about innocence versus guilt, you're playing the game Trump wants.

His aim is to turn universal human and civil rights into a privilege for the deserving – and he and his cronies get to arbitrarily decide who counts among the deserving.

And that process starts with tricking you into agreeing that anything other than personhood is a qualifier for the enjoyment of those rights.

If you're not willing to accept a world where ony 'good' people have rights, and where 'bad' people don't deserve protection from oppression and persecution, you have to keep your eye on the ball.