> It's the law of the land that determines how well are you doing once inside.

That continues to become less true, in the cruelest ways [1]:

> One man told KBI that Border Patrol agents tore his birth certificate up in front of him. He managed to save his Mexican identity card because he had hidden it in his shoe.

[1] https://www.aclu.org/news/immigrants-rights/border-patrols-a...