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Podcast: The Ayn Rand Institute Podcast
Episode: Immigration Enforcement and the Betrayal of Due Process
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America is a country that prizes freedom and the rule of law. Yet every day, we hear news of ICE raids on construction sites, Venezuelans shipped to foreign prisons without hearings, and sports tattoos treated as proof of criminality. As Agustina Vergara Cid warns in “Immigration Enforcement and the Betrayal of Due Process,” Americans have been turning a blind eye to this lawless, even authoritarian treatment. Delivered at the 2025 Objectivist Summer Conference, her talk is now available online.
While the Trump administration’s immigration crackdown has made the headlines recently, Vergar...