President Donald Trump continued on Tuesday to drift his thought, which some authorized consultants say is unconstitutional, to deport U.S. residents who commit crimes.
Talking to the press throughout a tour of a migrant detention heart within the Florida Everglades, the president repeated claims that there are a lot of immigrants who are actually residents and have been committing critical crimes.
“They don’t seem to be new to our nation. They’re outdated to our nation. A lot of them had been born in our nation. I believe we should get them the hell out of right here, too, if you wish to know the reality,” he stated. “So perhaps that would be the subsequent job.”
President President Donald Trump speaks after touring a migrant detention heart, dubbed “Alligator Alcatraz,” situated on the web site of the Dade-Collier Coaching and Transition Airport in Ochopee, Fla., July 1, 2025.
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The proposal got here weeks after the Assistant Lawyer Common Brett Shumate — a Trump appointee — released a memo giving U.S. attorneys extensive discretion to determine when to pursue the denaturalization course of to “advance the Administration’s coverage goals.”
Among the circumstances U.S. attorneys ought to pursue are these towards people who’ve engaged in torture, warfare crimes, human trafficking and human rights violations, the memo says.
Authorized consultants have warned that Trump’s proposals are unconstitutional claiming they violate the Eighth Modification, which prohibits merciless and weird punishment. The difficulty has not come earlier than the courts but.
Amanda Frost, a professor on the College of Virginia Faculty of Regulation, instructed ABC Information in April that the administration may attempt to goal naturalized U.S. residents, who can lose their immigration standing in the event that they’ve dedicated treason or falsified info throughout their naturalization course of. Nevertheless, she stated these situations are uncommon.
“If somebody’s a naturalized citizen, there may very well be an effort to denaturalize that particular person and deport them,” Frost stated. “However then it must be that they dedicated some kind of fraud or error of their naturalization course of. An unrelated crime couldn’t be the idea for denaturalizing and deporting someone.”
President Donald Trump visits a short lived migrant detention heart informally often called “Alligator Alcatraz” in Ochopee, Florida, July 1, 2025.
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Trump acknowledged that he did not know if deporting U.S. residents who’re convicted of crimes is authorized.
“We’ll have to seek out that out legally. I am simply saying if we had the authorized proper to do it, I’d do it in a heartbeat,” he added. “I do not know if we do or not, we’re that proper now.”
ABC Information’ Alexandra Hutzler contributed to this report.
