I think that's our ideal, but I suspect we believe it less than we think we do. Rights often conflict, and the government can't always protect both rights. So

I think that's our ideal, but I suspect we believe it less than we think we do. Rights often conflict, and the government can't always protect both rights. So we have a giant pile of judicial precedent telling us which rights get prior claim. And you'll find that most people will insist that the right they care about dominates over the rights other people care about. In this case, people have a right not to be subject to crime, and many of them believe that this dominates over the due process rights of people who might commit crime. They will rarely put it quite that way, but those who voted this way don't seem to be issuing a lot of push-back. They consider their right to avoid theft and murder to be sacrosanct, and that non-citizens have few if any rights that take precedence.