President Donald Trump on Monday criticized the Supreme Court for hindering his administration’s efforts to deport migrants without due process, saying it would be impossible to afford a trial for everyone it’s seeking to deport.
“My team is fantastic, doing an incredible job, however, they are being stymied at every turn by even the U.S. Supreme Court, which I have such great respect for, but which seemingly doesn’t want me to send violent criminals and terrorists back to Venezuela, or any other Country, for that matter,” Trump wrote in a Truth Social post.
Trump has sought to deport migrants it accuses of being gang members under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, claiming wartime powers to remove them from the country without due process. His efforts have been blocked in multiple courts, and the Supreme Court early Saturday issued an order to temporarily pause the removal of a group of Venezuelan migrants under the 18th century law.
Trump wrote in his post that the courts are “intimidated by the Radical Left who are, ‘playing the Ref’” and said that his administration simply “cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years.”
“We would need hundreds of thousands of trials for the hundreds of thousands of Illegals we are sending out of the Country. Such a thing is not possible to do,” Trump wrote.
Attorneys and family members for many of those who have been removed outside of the legal process have rejected allegations that they are gang members, and said that the government has relied on dubious assertions about tattoos and social media posts as claims of evidence. Multiple families are fighting for their loved ones to be returned to the U.S. to receive due process in their cases.
In a subsequent post on Truth Social on Monday, Trump falsely claimed he was being held to a different standard than his predecessor on immigration policy. He complained about being required to adhere to the rule of law, accusing former President Joe Biden of letting “Millions of Criminals into our Country, totally unchecked and unvetted, with no Legal authority to do so,” while claiming that he is “expected to go through a lengthy Legal process, separately, for each and every Criminal Alien.”
