The remarks he made in the Oval Office in front of journalists were Trump’s latest broadside to the judiciary, which he said suppressed his power to expel. Trump has erroneously claimed that countries like Congo and Venezuela have cleared their prisons to the United States, so he needs to bypass the constitutional requirements of due process to quickly deport immigrants.
“I want us to get cooperation from the courts because we have thousands of people ready to go out and you can’t try all of these people,” Trump said. “It’s not saying. The system doesn’t care. We don’t think there is anything to say.”
“Very bad people” he claims he is removing from the country include killers, drug dealers and mentally ill people.
“We’re taking them out and the judge can’t say, ‘No, you have to go through the trial.'” The trial will take two years. If we don’t allow us to do what we have the right to do, we will have a very dangerous country. ”
He made a similar statement in a social media post on Monday, writing: “We can’t give everyone a trial because doing so will go on for 200 years without an exaggeration.” Trump’s remarks sparked swift opposition. Rep. Jonathan Jackson (D-ill.
Trump’s comments were posted in the Supreme Court early Saturday morning, temporarily blocking the government from deporting a group of Venezuelan immigrants accused of becoming gang members under the vast power of rarely invoked wartime laws.
Trump issued a declaration last month, citing the Alien Enemy Act as a way to expel what he calls immigrants, as a member of the Violence Committee on Venezuela Street Violence. The law was adopted in 1798 and was used only three times in American history during the United States’ declaration of war.
The Supreme Court ruled that there must be a chance to challenge his removal.
The Trump administration is also frightened by the case of an El Salvador man living in Maryland. The Supreme Court ordered the administration about two weeks ago to promote his return so that he could pass the legal system in the United States, but the White House has not fulfilled the order so far.
The White House posted on social media that Kilmar Abrego Garcia “never come back.”
This article originally appeared in The New York Times.
