Trump demands 'due process' and 'fair' treatment, but would sidestep courts to deport migrants or
Trumps ego is bruised so easily.
Trump demands 'due process' and 'fair' treatment, but would sidestep courts to deport migrants or confiscate guns
https://www.dallasnews.com/news/donald-trump-1/2018/06/25/trump-demands-due-process-fair-treatment-sidestep-courts-deport-migrants-confiscate-guns
WASHINGTON — Backlash mounted on Monday to President Donald Trump's call for deporting migrants without a court hearing — a step that many legal scholars deem a violation of constitutional rights afforded citizens and noncitizens alike.
It's not the first time the president has suggested curtailing due process, even as he regularly complains that he's been treated unfairly by the news media, Congress, foreign leaders, or his own Justice Department and the special counsel investigating Russia's influence in the 2016 election.
Fairness is a recurring theme for Trump. But so is curbing illegal immigration.
On the latter, he dug in on Monday during an Oval Office meeting with Jordan's king and queen, reiterating his disdain for hiring more immigration judges, which many lawmakers in both parties view as critical in order to cut a backlog of 700,000 asylum and removal cases.
"Where do you find 5,000 people to be judges?" Trump asserted — citing a wildly inflated figure that for weeks the White House has been unable to substantiate. "It leads to graft.... We want a system where, when people come in illegally, they have to go out — a nice simple system that works."
No congressional proposal has involved adding anything close to 5,000....................................................
