While the rule of law has encountered tremendous pressure in 2025, arguably no field has experienced it more acutely than immigration law, which has served as the backdrop for disappearances to foreign prisons, extraordinary uses of detention and arrest authority in communities, failure to adhere to federal court orders, retaliation for speech and the watering down of due process protections, to name just a few examples. Where then, does this leave the relationship between immigration law and the rule (and role) of law? To what extent do recent developments amount to new phenomena or a replication, albeit on a more aggressive scale, of preexisting practices in immigration law? Is the current state of immigration law a warning for other areas of law and the erosion of democratic principles more broadly? To what extent does the fragility of constitutional protection in immigration law enable the rise of authoritarian structures? Where might legal scholarship still make productive interventions?