As I said, they are persons.
This is an explicit distinction made in Section One of the Fourteenth Amendment.
"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the state wherein they reside. No state shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any state deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."
Citizens have privileges and immunities that non-citizen persons do not have. But all persons within every jurisdiction have God-given unalienable rights which must be protected -- citizen and non-citizen alike.
Absolutely - just as one/the Fed/the State cannot imprison indefinitely without trial or murder a non U.S. citizen (absent a state of War). They have unalienable rights that should be recognized.
But they are not citizens.
That was my point. ‘Treated like every other citizen’ is a faulty formulation because they are NOT citizens.
‘Treated with human dignity as a person’ would have gone without remark or criticism from me.