President Donald Trump on Sunday compared people entering the U.S. from Mexico to invaders and said they should be immediately sent back without appearing before a judge.
The American Civil Liberties Union said in response that such a step would be illegal and violate the Constitution that Trump swore to uphold.
“We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country,” the president said on Twitter as he was being driven to his private golf club in Northern Virginia. “When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order.”
“Most children come without parents … Our Immigration policy, laughed at all over the world, is very unfair to all of those people who have gone through the system legally and are waiting on line for years!” he continued. “Immigration must be based on merit – we need people who will help to Make America Great Again!”
Hiring manythousands of judges, and going through a long and complicated legal process, is not the way to go – will always be disfunctional. People must simply be stopped at the Border and told they cannot come into the U.S. illegally. Children brought back to their country……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
….If this is done, illegal immigration will be stopped in it’s tracks – and at very little, by comparison, cost. This is the only real answer – and we must continue to BUILD THE WALL!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
“What President Trump has suggested here is both illegal and unconstitutional,” said Omar Jadwat, director of the ACLU’s Immigrants’ Rights Project. “Any official who has sworn an oath to uphold the Constitution and laws should disavow it unequivocally.”
Trump has been criticizing immigration judges for weeks, both exaggerating the number currently hearing cases and saying that hiring more — as some members of Congress have proposed — would be unnecessary.
Such a difference in the media coverage of the same immigration policies between the Obama Administration and ours. Actually, we have done a far better job in that our facilities are cleaner and better run than were the facilities under Obama. Fake News is working overtime!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
Trump made his anti-illegal immigration stance a centerpiece of his presidential campaign and he has pushed for strict policies since taking office. He said during a campaign appearance Saturday in Las Vegas that being for “strong borders, no crime” is a winning issue for Republicans to run on in November’s congressional elections.
But he bowed to public pressure last week and reversed a policy of separating adults and children who enter the U.S. illegally together at the border with Mexico, though his “zero-tolerance” policy of criminally prosecuting all illegal border-crossers remains.
The House is expected to vote on immigration legislation this week, though its fate is uncertain.
Trump told House Republicans last week that he was “100 percent” behind the effort but tweeted days later that they were “wasting their time” voting before the midterm elections.
About a dozen protesters gathered at the entrance to Trump’s club Sunday afternoon as he prepared to leave, including a woman holding a sign that said “Trump Should Be Caged” and a man wrapped in a Mylar blanket. Some of the separated children were seen using the blankets on government-distributed video of their holding conditions.
Further up the road, a lone man stood with a sign with Trump’s headshot and the words “Thank You.”
(AP)
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In the good old days before the insanity of liberalism and leftism,all borders where protected by the military,and anyone trying to sneek across the border was treated as an invader and warned to stop with a firing shot,and if it was ignored the next bullet was fired between the eyes, yes this is the only way to secure your borders
One should remember that these immigrants wannabees are claiming that living conditions in Mexico are so horrid that they should be given asylum. Of course has the problem that American businesses need workers and the most likely source are Mexicans, but that’s a different issue.
Yup Chugbugi…those were the “good ole days” when America was a white Christian country , blacks and Hispanics “knew their places” and yidden were excluded from working in many corporations, living in upscale neighborhoods and joining most social clubs. We should aspire to be like such great nations as East German and North Korea who butchered tens of thousands seeking to cross their borders illegally (albeit in the wrong direction).
Gadolhadorah .
according to your twisted illogical logic,”protecting your borders from invading hordes is the same as discriminating against Jews and other minorities and you are in the same league with East Germany and North Korea”
if you realy believe this nonsensical gibberish,you my friend have a problem ” pleae go and take your meds, LOL