A CNN anchor grilled on Sunday a top republican of the house about whether the congress would be and the Trump administration would continue with his massive deportation strategy if American citizens would be the target.
Although it is illegal to deport American citizens, President Donald Trump has cleared the possibility several times in recent weeks. During a visit from the White House with the President of El Salvador, Nayib Bukele last week, the American commander, the leader of a Central American country with the cameras that roll-out to expand a infamous mega prison that was used to house marans and other hardened criminals.
In other cases, Trump has proposed such a punishment for demonstrators who destroy or commit arson to Tesla dealers about the anger of the left with his CEO, Elon Musk.
On Sunday, CNN's Dana Bash House Majority Whip Tom Emmer interviewed, the third highest Republican in the House of Representatives. She repeatedly pressed Emmer on whether, in his capacity as lawyer and a legislator, he believed that Trump had the legal or constitutional authority to deport American citizens if they were convicted of violent crimes.
Rep. Tom Emmer, the Gop House Whip, spoke on Sunday about CNN's State of the Union about the comments of President Donald Trump about his desire to send American citizens to prisons in other countries (Getty Images)
Three times Emmer immediately refused to answer Bash's question. Instead, he was every time he said that the administration was really 'focused' – “Removing those who have no legal status in this country who turned out to be the worst of the worst.”
Bash repeatedly tried to let him answer the question immediately and noted that the president himself had increased the prospect: “I just want to give you another chance to say whether or not you are in order with our citizens [being deported]”She pricked the congress.
Emmer did not admit in his answers.
“The issue we are dealing with is that we have a president who wants to protect American citizens against violence, ask for crime and ask for their children, killed, etc., versus democrats who seem to want to protect illegal aliens in this country, for whatever reason.”
On NBCs Meet the pressRepublican senator John Kennedy from Louisiana had a more direct answer to the same question.
“No, madam nor should it be considered appropriate or morally,” the senator told moderator Kristen Welker about the prospect of deporting American citizens or housing criminals in other countries.
“We have our own laws,” he said. “We have the eighth amendment to the Constitution. In my opinion, we don't have to send prisoners abroad.”
News service AZPM reported on Friday that a 19-year-old man with American citizenship, Jose Hermosillo, was held in immigration and customs enforcement (Ice) detention for more than a week after he was held on the street in Tuscon, Arizona, Arizona, by officers who did not believe him when he told him was an American citizen. Judicial documents indicate that ICE agents stated that Hermosillo has admitted to enter the US illegally, but he says he was not crossing the border at all. He was released on Thursday from detention after family members had given identification to a court and his case was rejected.
His relatives later told reporters that Hermosillo would probably have been deported shortly thereafter if they could not have provided the documents on time.
Apart from the very real possibility that American citizens are accidentally swept in the mass deportation campaign, Trump has also repeatedly raised the prospect to raise it as a punishment for Americans.
“I'm talking about violent people. I'm talking about really bad people,” the President said on Thursday during his meeting with Bukele.
“I would only do it by law,” Trump said too. “I suggested that, you know,” why would it just stop at people who cross the border illegally? 'We have grown and born a number of terrible criminals, American. '
White House Pers Secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the idea in the next news briefing, but was unable to guarantee his legality.
“The president said that if it is legal, if there is a legal path to do that. He is not sure. We are not sure if that is,” she said reporters. “It is an idea that he was just driven and has discussed very publicly in the efforts.”
