The Trump Administration Continues To Attack Due Process
President Donald Trump and his administration continued to assault the concept of due process this week, with Trump claiming that undocumented immigrants shouldn’t be entitled to appearances before judges prior to deportation.
“I hope we get cooperation from the courts, because we have thousands of people that are ready to go out and you can’t have a trial for all of these people,” Trump said in the Oval Office on Tuesday. “It wasn’t meant. The system wasn’t meant. And we don’t think there’s anything that says that.”
“We’re getting them out, and a judge can’t say, ‘No, you have to have a trial,'” Trump continued. “The trial is going to take two years. We’re going to have a very dangerous country if we’re not allowed to do what we’re entitled to do.”
The Trump administration is pursuing its mass deportation program through multiple different strategies, some traditional and some brazenly illegal, but all of them share a bedrock belief that the judicial branch has little to no authority to halt deportations once the government has decided someone is subject to removal.
In a social media post on Monday, Trump wrote, “We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years.”
If the Trump administration was genuinely worried about the case backlog, it wouldn’t be firing immigration judges. It sacked at least eight immigration judges on Tuesday, on top of two dozen that have resigned or been fired since Trump’s second term began.
Vice President J.D. Vance posted similar comments on social media deriding due process
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