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Mike38,
If Constitutional rights did not apply to non-citizens, then the government could: incarcerate or execute non-citizens without trial or legal representation, bug their hotel rooms and conduct warrantless searches of their possessions or persons at will, throw them in jail if a government agent didn't like something they said, torture them with impunity, etc.
Would this then be a country in which you would care to live? Is this what America stands for?
I think poptime nailed it.
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