President Donald Trump of the United States said he was unsure whether people in the US illegally are entitled to due process rights guaranteed in the Constitution.
Trump stated this as his administration pushes aggressively to deport immigrants who are in the country illegally and other non-citizens.
The president made his statement during an interview with the NBC.
Trump stated this during an interview conducted on Friday that was set to air on Sunday on NBC’s “Meet the Press with Kristen Welker.”;
Welker asked Trump whether he agreed with Secretary of State Marco Rubio, who said last month that “of course”; all people in the US are entitled to due process, which generally requires the government to provide notice and a hearing before taking certain adverse legal actions.
“I don’t know. I’m not, I’m not a lawyer. I don’t know,”; Trump said, adding that such a requirement would mean “we’d have to have a million or 2 million or 3 million trials”;.
The Republican further stated that his lawyers would obviously follow what the Supreme Court said.
Recall that on April 19 the Supreme Court justices temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelan migrants it accused of being gang members.
Trump’s administration, which has invoked a rarely used wartime law, has urged the justices to lift or narrow their order.
In a filing to the Supreme Court, US Solicitor General D. John Sauer said that detainees were receiving advance notice of their removals and have had “adequate time”; to file claims for judicial review.
The justices also ordered Trump’s administration on April 10 to facilitate the return to the United States of a Salvadoran man who the government has acknowledged was deported in error to El Salvador.
