President Donald Trump said Tuesday that it would be impossible to give a trial to each one of the millions of migrants who illegally entered the country under former President Joe Biden, adding that he hoped he would get cooperation from the courts for his mass deportation plans.
Trump said that he won the election on his promises to deport illegal migrants and that the country would be very “dangerous” if his administration were blocked from carrying out those deportations. Various federal courts, including the Supreme Court, have bogged down the administration’s efforts to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport suspected gang members.
“We’re getting them out. I hope we get cooperation from the courts, because we have thousands of people that are ready to go out and you can’t have a trial for all of these people,” Trump told reporters in the Oval Office. “It wasn’t meant. The system wasn’t meant. And we don’t think there’s anything that says that.”
“A judge can’t say, ‘You know, you have to have a trial.’ The trial is going to take two years,” Trump added. “No, we’re going to have a very dangerous country if we’re not allowed to do what we’re entitled to do. And I won an election based on the fact that we get them out.”
Trump also said that there was “virtually” no one crossing the border illegally under his watch, stating that the border was “a tad stronger” than it was during his first term in office.
The comments come after Trump made multiple posts on Truth Social talking about how long it would take to give a trial to the more than 10 million illegal migrants in the United States.
“How can Biden let Millions of Criminals into our Country, totally unchecked and unvetted, with no Legal authority to do so, yet I, in order to make up for this assault to our Nation, am expected to go through a lengthy Legal process, separately, for each and every Criminal Alien. As usual, TWO DIFFERENT STANDARDS, only leading to the Complete and Total Destruction of the U.S.A,” Trump wrote.
In a second post, he said it would take 200 years to give trials to everyone.
“If we don’t get these criminals out of our Country, we are not going to have a Country any longer. We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years,” he said. “We would need hundreds of thousands of trials for the hundreds of thousands of Illegals we are sending out of the Country.”
The Trump administration has been locked in a battle with the courts on numerous immigration actions, including the deportation of suspected MS-13 member Kilmar Abrego Garcia back to his home country of El Salvador. A federal judge has ordered that Garcia be returned to the United States due to an “administrative error,” but the Trump administration has so far resisted these orders. The Supreme Court has also limited immigration enforcement, blocking the administration from deporting alleged Tren de Aragua members to Venezuela.
