""Might?" Since when is deporting an optional issue when a violator of federal law is apprehended?"
If you or I violated federal law, "might" would not enter the equation. It is at least ostensible then, that illegal immigrants have more rights than you and I.
You took the words right out of my mouth!
Heaven help any of us CITIZENS who might run afoul of the law, even unintentionally. And that grows more and more likely with the oppressive maze of often contradictory laws and regulations under which we currently live.
The worst thing is, any CITIZEN who dares to do anything about the problem is immediately branded a "racist" or a "vigilante" by the media, or, in the case of the Minutemen Project, by the President himself.