ICE ran fake university in Michigan. The claim that 'no one is above the law' can't endure a moment's honest scrutiny. It is impossible not to exempt the authorities from the laws they enforce. Here, it's laws against fraud. If you arrested all the ICE people involved and charged them with fraud, on what grounds other than 'We're exempt from the laws' could they claim innocence? That's a decent definition of a government: people who are to one extent or another, or in the performance of their official functions, exempt from the laws they enforce: against theft, kidnapping, killing people (in war), etc.. No advocate of the rule of law can, consistently with that position, not be an anarchist. Chew on that.
As I keep saying, people's commitment to the various arguments for and pictures of state legitimacy just steamrollers their rationality. Like you can blandly or inspiringly go 'rule of law' all day, but only by ignoring the roiling contradictions underneath, which are under your nose. It's not about what's true or what makes sense, it's about what people need to believe and what they want other people to believe, in order to control them. Before you head down this road (or down the road of social contract theory, for example), just acknowledge that the apparent appeal to reason, Enlightenment values, and so on, is not at all where this is actually coming from.
