I don’t see how this retort applies to this conversation. Do you think the executive branch was selectively ignoring the law by not sending asylum seekers to E

I don’t see how this retort applies to this conversation. Do you think the executive branch was selectively ignoring the law by not sending asylum seekers to El Salvador under previous administrations? The law is selectively and capriciously enforced all the time. Jay walking, tax evasion, speed limits, etc. At the risk of repeating myself (selectively) “enforcing the law” is a great excuse for budding authoritarians, to save face with the segment of the population who struggle to discern right from wrong, and depend upon “the legal system” to make that distinction for them. You could dress up any behavior in the language of legal enforcement and necessary expressions of sovereignty, and that will apparently be enough for some people.