Ever since the recent shakeup in his campaign staff, the press always notes if Donald Trump is working from a teleprompter or not at each campaign appearance. More often than not, he is, although he did stray a bit from his prepared remarks Saturday afternoon at Sen. Joni Ernst’s second annual “Roast and Ride.”
In Trump’s prepared remarks on immigration, he was to pledge to begin “swiftly removing criminal illegal immigrants” (a bit redundant, but …) from this country on Day 1 of his first term. Speaking live, though, Trump pushed up his own deadline significantly, saying the process would being in the first hour.
Trump says he'll begin deporting "criminal" immigrants "within one hour" of taking office. https://t.co/ZlULomeSib
— ABC News (@ABC) August 27, 2016
.@realDonaldTrump says "bad people" will be gone "within one hour after I take office" https://t.co/z8E0AMsrwY pic.twitter.com/vpwYPFU7ny
— CBS News (@CBSNews) August 27, 2016
CBS News almost has it right — Trump didn’t actually say they’d be gone within one hour, but rather that the process to round up and deport criminals would start within one hour.
That’s not really the same thing at all, but even allowing for some degree of journalistic malpractice, Trump really seems to have painted himself into another corner. Never mind President Obama’s signing of an executive order during his first month in office requiring that the Guantanamo Bay detention facility be closed within one year; there’s no wiggle room for a Republican candidate.
The Republican Party's nominee for president … https://t.co/3Jxlno2y9C
— Chris Geidner (@chrisgeidner) August 28, 2016
Set the clock for 60 minutes! https://t.co/ElZuEnUIsZ
— Chris Cillizza (@CillizzaCNN) August 28, 2016
https://twitter.com/UseUrEvolution/status/769639043114074112
Is he going to wiggle his nose, or wave his magic wand? #nohyperbolehere
— David Gunter (@dagmit77) August 27, 2016
Guessing the "bad people" don't get trials or anything.
— IT'S MY COUNTRY AND I'LL CRY IF I WANT TO (@Litzz11) August 28, 2016
Or even assuming some of the "bad people" are actually <sigh> American citizens.
— #Mar (@MaeLake4) August 28, 2016
This was the part of the speech where he was talking specifically about illegal aliens, but whatever.
Trump just said he's gonna get rid of the Hispanics within one hour of being president.
He is so often racist, it's losing its shock.
— Kajieme Powell’s Life Mattered (@drumbeats4peace) August 27, 2016
https://twitter.com/wendystolyarov/status/769727996835930112
Wow, that escalated quickly.
It is possible to critique Trump’s pledge as naive without resorting to claims of genocide. He’s counting on law enforcement knowing who the bad guys are and hitting the ground running, but even a President Trump would have to work with Congress and DHS, and nothing in the federal government ever gets done in a day.
Like Trump is going to wave his hand and suddenly DHS is going to magically be deporting aliens in a process different than the current one.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) August 27, 2016
A lot of this immigration stuff is based on ignorance of removal process created by Congress.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) August 27, 2016
Literally the process runs:
DHS places alien in removal proceedings.
Immigration Court.
Board of Imm. Appeals.
Circuit Courts.
SCOTUS.— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) August 27, 2016
An example from this week. 9th Cir. resolved the case of alien convicted of drug crimes who was first put in proceedings in 2014.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) August 27, 2016
And that's with the expedited treatment. Many 9th Cir. immigration cases take three or four years before a decision.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) August 27, 2016
And why does it take that long, you ask? Well, Congress created this lengthy administrative and judicial process for deportation.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) August 27, 2016
Congress would have to fix that. Not Dictator Trump waiving his hand and magically making deportations happen overnight.
— Gabriel Malor (@gabrielmalor) August 27, 2016
Trump’s dreaming when he says he’ll put in motion within one hour the process to deport “criminal” illegal immigrants (thanks for the quotation marks, ABC News). As for Hillary Clinton, she’s all about the dreamers, ’cause she’s dreamy like that.
Daughter, business owner, and immigrant: Meet Luisa—chaser of the American Dream.https://t.co/yhGwROb937
— Hillary Clinton (@HillaryClinton) August 26, 2016
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