DRAW IRE OF CRITICS, EXPERTS

children from parents who are criminally charged when entering the U.S. illegally.

“I don’t know if he understands the difficulty of every action he tries to take,” Capuano said. “It’s a political stunt, but it impacts people in a real way.”

Matt Cameron, an immigration lawyer in East Boston who works with many people from Central America, including illegal immigrants, said Trump has been trying to get rid of judges and immigration courts for years now.

“I would say he clearly has no understanding of due process, and we’ve known that,” Cameron said. “We should be more concerned that the CEO of immigration doesn’t understand immigration policy.”

However, Jessica Vaughan, director of policy studies for the Center for Immigration Studies, said she sees Trump’s proposal as an attempt to vet out people who might try to take advantage of the system.

“It’s not necessarily a denial of due process. Not everyone is entitled to the same type of due process hearing before an immigration judge,” Vaughan said. “We cannot continue to let people game the system. It’s gotten out of control.”

Petra Molnar, a researcher and refugee advocate in Toronto, questioned the legality of Trump’s proclamation, which she said contradicts both U.S. and international immigration laws.

“If this is actually going to be written as policy or written into law, this is a perfect lawsuit,” she said. “It doesn’t make sense — you’re dismantling a huge part of your immigration system.”

Stephanie Silverman, a migration researcher and educator in the U.S., U.K. and Canada, doubted that what Trump has proposed is even possible.

“Deportation is a two-way agreement,” she said. “A government has to accept them back — you can’t just drop somebody out of the U.S. … It doesn’t work like that.”

Silverman did agree with one part of his tweet, however, in saying that the U.S. system is “very unfair” to individuals who wait years to gain legal entry.