Trump is demanding the power to deport immigrants without judges or courts, which would be a violation of due process rights.
Trump tweeted:
We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. 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…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2018
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….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! Immigration must be based on merit – we need people who will help to Make America Great Again!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2018
Trump is trying to throw out the Fifth Amendment of the Constitution. According to the Legal Information Institute the references to due process appear twice in the Constitution, “The Constitution states only one command twice. The Fifth Amendment says to the federal government that no one shall be “deprived of life, liberty or property without due process of law.” The Fourteenth Amendment, ratified in 1868, uses the same eleven words, called the Due Process Clause, to describe a legal obligation of all states. These words have as their central promise an assurance that all levels of American government must operate within the law (“legality”) and provide fair procedures. Most of this essay concerns that promise. We should briefly note, however, three other uses that these words have had in American constitutional law.”
Trump doesn’t want immigrants to have due process. He is demanding that he be allowed to round up migrants and toss them out of the country without a hearing. It doesn’t matter to Trump if these people have done anything wrong. His whole rationale is centered around the racist belief that immigrants who aren’t white don’t belong in the United States.
Donald Trump is threatening the Constitution
Donald Trump is directly threatening the constitutional rights of every person in the United States of America. He wants the ability to arrest and deport anyone for any reason. Guilt and innocence do not matter. Democracy is under assault from the Oval Office by a president who looks hell-bent on destroying the Constitution.
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Jason is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a Congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason has a Bachelor’s Degree in Political Science. His graduate work focused on public policy, with a specialization in social reform movements.
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