President Donald Trump doubled down on his weekend declaration that illegal immigrants brought to the United States should be turned away at the Southwest border without due process or access to the court system.
Hiring manythousands of judges, and going through a long and complicated legal process, is not the way to go – will always be disfunctional. People must simply be stopped at the Border and told they cannot come into the U.S. illegally. Children brought back to their country……
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
….If this is done, illegal immigration will be stopped in it’s tracks – and at very little, by comparison, cost. This is the only real answer – and we must continue to BUILD THE WALL!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 25, 2018
Trump ignited a firestorm of criticism over the weekend when he declared that the U.S. government should be allowed to deport illegals expeditiously. Under the current system, illegal immigrants claiming asylum must have their claims adjudicated in a lengthy court proceeding before they can be deported to their home country.
We cannot allow all of these people to invade our Country. When somebody comes in, we must immediately, with no Judges or Court Cases, bring them back from where they came. Our system is a mockery to good immigration policy and Law and Order. Most children come without parents…
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2018
….Our Immigration policy, laughed at all over the world, is very unfair to all of those people who have gone through the system legally and are waiting on line for years! Immigration must be based on merit – we need people who will help to Make America Great Again!
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) June 24, 2018
Trump’s tweets come as thousands of unaccompanied children and adults from Central America have begun storming the U.S.-Mexico border claiming asylum. The Trump administration maintains that the vast majority of them are economic migrants exploiting the loopholes of U.S. immigration law.