{"id":4447,"date":"2025-05-05T23:52:18","date_gmt":"2025-05-05T23:52:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=4447"},"modified":"2025-05-05T23:52:18","modified_gmt":"2025-05-05T23:52:18","slug":"for-trump-the-constitution-is-a-hindrance-as-he-pushes-for-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/friscotimes.org\/?p=4447","title":{"rendered":"For Trump, the Constitution Is a Hindrance as He Pushes for Deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"<p> <br \/>\n<\/p>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-0\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Inauguration Day, President Trump, like his predecessors, swore to \u201cpreserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But in recent days he has said he isn\u2019t so sure about that commitment.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">In an interview with NBC News that aired Sunday, Mr. Trump said \u201cI don\u2019t know\u201d when asked whether he needed to uphold the Constitution as his administration tries to conduct the largest deportation operation in American history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">His remark came as part of a broader exchange over due process and who is afforded it, even though the Fifth Amendment guarantees it for every individual on American soil. Mr. Trump repeatedly said he wasn\u2019t sure whether everyone is entitled to due process.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump\u2019s extraordinary stance on the issue provides a window into his belief that the legal system should not prevent him from immediately deporting people who entered the United States illegally.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-1\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">On Monday, Mr. Trump once again cast doubt on due process and how it would impede his mass deportation campaign, demonstrating he has little patience for individuals to have their day in court.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe courts have all of a sudden, out of nowhere, they\u2019ve said maybe you\u2019re going to have to have trials,\u201d the president said Monday in the Oval Office. \u201cWe\u2019re going to have five million trials?\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The rhetoric from the president and his top aides is part of a strategy to defend the administration\u2019s vision for a far-reaching and aggressive deportation campaign. Even as they have faced legal setbacks, some of which they have ignored, Mr. Trump and his allies have portrayed their efforts as necessary for national security.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump regularly paints migrants as \u201cmonsters\u201d and \u201cmurderers,\u201d describing them as \u201csome of the worst people on Earth.\u201d Last week, officials lined the North Lawn of the White House with mug shot-style posters of migrants who were arrested and accused of committing crimes.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cI was elected to get them the hell out of here and the courts are holding me from doing it,\u201d Mr. Trump said in the NBC News interview.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n<div data-testid=\"companionColumn-2\">\n<div class=\"css-53u6y8\">\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">To expedite the process, Mr. Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, to deport Venezuelans his administration has deemed to be part of a street gang. Last week, a federal judge permanently barred the Trump administration from invoking the law, which had been used only three times before in U.S. history.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Mr. Trump has also ignored a Supreme Court ruling that directs his administration to return Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, a migrant the administration mistakenly sent to a prison for terrorists in El Salvador. Mr. Garcia remains in El Salvador, and some Democrats have argued that Mr. Trump has thrust the country into a constitutional crisis by ignoring the order.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">The president has also lashed out at judges who have ruled against him, calling for their impeachment and in turn drawing further criticism from Democrats and legal critics, who say he is undermining the independence of the judiciary. His attacks even earned a rare rebuke from Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr., who said \u201cimpeachment is not an appropriate response to disagreement concerning a judicial decision.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">But Mr. Trump has long had an adversarial relationship with the judicial system and feels further empowered to act after having faced dozens of criminal charges after leaving office in 2021. As a candidate, Mr. Trump teased that he would be a dictator on his first day in office (his aides said he was joking), and he has made clear he views the Justice Department as designed to defend his interests.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">Now, Mr. Trump and his top aides show no signs of backing down from this fight.<\/p>\n<p class=\"css-at9mc1 evys1bk0\">\u201cThe right of \u2018due process\u2019 is to protect citizens from their government, not to protect foreign trespassers from removal,\u201d Stephen Miller, one of Mr. Trump\u2019s top advisers, posted Monday on social media. \u201cDue process guarantees the rights of a criminal defendant facing prosecution, not an illegal alien facing deportation.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<aside class=\"css-ew4tgv\" aria-label=\"companion column\"\/><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Inauguration Day, President Trump, like his predecessors, swore to \u201cpreserve, protect and defend the Constitution of the United States.\u201d But in recent days he has said he isn\u2019t so&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":643,"featured_media":4448,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[5697,4515,5698,4,5699,4514],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v24.5 - 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