Deportations: Trump for end of due process
DALLAS:President Donald Trump on Sunday ratcheted up his demands on immigration, saying people who “invade” the US illegally should be deported immediately without going through normal judicial processes.
“We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country,” Trump tweeted. “When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back to where to came from. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order.”
Facing a public outcry and pressure even from within his Republican Party, Trump last week reversed his policy of separating migrant children from their parents at the border so the adults could be detained and prosecuted, a process that typically takes months.
Since buckling on the issue on Wednesday, Trump has redoubled his criticism of U.S. immigration laws on Twitter and in speeches where he likened illegal immigrants to invaders trying to “break into” the country.
US immigration law provides certain rights for undocumented immigrants arrested by Immigration and Customs Enforcement. In most cases, they are allowed a full hearing before an immigration judge before being deported.
As he hits the road to support Republican candidates in November’s mid-term elections, Trump has returned to a signature issue that powered his 2016 campaign for the White House.
On Saturday, during an event in Las Vegas, Trump warned that the US risked being “overrun” by “millions and millions” of people pouring into the country. On Sunday, he said US immigration policy was “laughed at all over the world.”