President Donald Trump and his administration continued to assault the concept of due process this week, with Trump claiming that undocumented immigrants shouldn't be entitled to appearances before judges prior to deportation.
"I hope we get cooperation from the courts, because we have thousands of people that are ready to go out and you can't have a trial for all of these people," Trump said in the Oval Office on Tuesday. "It wasn't meant. The system wasn't meant. And we don't think there's anything that says that."
"We're getting them out, and a judge can't say, 'No, you have to have a trial,'" Trump continued. "The trial is going to take two years. We're going to have a very dangerous country if we're not allowed to do what we're entitled to do."
