In the midst of a tense legal battle on deportations, President Donald Trump now argues that undocumented migrants should not receive a trial in which they can challenge the elimination of the country.
“We are taking them out, and I hope we receive the cooperation of the courts because you know, we have thousands of people ready to leave, and you cannot have a trial for all these people,” Trump said in the Oval office on Tuesday.
“It was not meaning, the system was not significant, and we do not believe that there is anything to say: look, we are receiving very bad people, murderers, murderers, drug traffickers, really bad, mentally ill people, the mentally crazy, emptied the crazy asylums in our country, we are taking them out,” Trump continued. “And a judge cannot say: ‘No, you have to have a trial.'”
“No, we are going to have a very dangerous country if we are not allowed to do what we have the right to do,” Trump added.
President Donald Trump talks to journalists while participating in the Juramentation ceremony for Paul Atkins, president of the Bag and Securities Commission in the Oval Office of the White House in Washington, on April 22, 2025.
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Trump made a similar argument in a publication to its conservative social networks platform, arguing that they cannot give to everyone who wants to deport a trial because “it would take, without exaggeration, 200 years.”
“Such a thing is not possible to do,” he wrote.
Immigration issues are treated routinely at a limited hearing or other procedure before an immigration judge, not a complete judgment as Trump suggests.
His comments occurred after the Supreme Court, in a brief order issued on Saturday morning, temporarily prevented the administration to deport a group of Venezuelan migrants who are allegedly members of gangs under the alien enemies law of 1798.
“The government is ordered that no member of the alleged class of detainees from the United States until the additional order of this court,” the judges said. Judges Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas disagreed.
The Trump administration retreated against the Supreme Court, qualifying its “unprecedented” and bad decision. General lawyer John Sauer said the judges should reverse the course and let the lower courts intervene first on the subject.
The American Union of Civil Liberties had appealed before the Superior Court of the Nation to prevent migrants from being arrested in a Texas detention center to be eliminated, stating that they were at risk of being deported “without prior notice or the opportunity to be heard”, a violation, they said, of the previous order of the Supreme Court that the detainees are entitled to “reasonable time” relief.
“These men were imminent of spending their lives in a horrible foreign prison without having had the opportunity to go to court,” said Aclu lawyer Lee Gellnt, in a statement after the order of the Supreme Court. “We feel relieved that the Supreme Court has not allowed the administration to move them away as others were last month.”
The military personnel of the United States Escort, claimed that the members of the Venezuelan Gang Train of Aragua and the MS-13 gang deported recently by the United States government will be imprisoned in the Prison of CECOT, on April 12, 2025.
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Also in front and the center of Trump’s deportation effort is the case of Kilmar Abrego García, a migrant who lives in Maryland who was erroneously deported to the infamous mega prisbil of El Salvador.
The Tsar of the Trump administration border, Tom Homan, defended the elimination of Abrego García, telling the co-presenter of “This Week” by ABC, Jonathan Karl, “did the right thing” and “eliminated a threat of public security.” The supposed Abrego García of the Administration is a member of the MS-13 gang, which his lawyers and relatives deny.
Democrats have criticized Trump’s actions in the case for violating the rights of due process. Senator Chris Van Hollen was the first Democratic legislator to visit El Salvador, where he met with Garcia, last week. Several Democrats from the House of Representatives were in El Salvador on Monday to advocate for their release.
“While Donald Trump continues to challenge the Supreme Court, Kilmar Abrego García is illegally detained in El Salvador after being unfairly deported,” said Democratic Representative Robert García. “That is why we are here: remind the American people to kidnap immigrants and deport them without due process is not how things do in the United States.”
