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Trump touts immigration policies, says the ‘courts are giving us a hard time’ on immigration arrests
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3:40Now PlayingPresident Donald Trump celebrated the first 100 days of his second term at a campaign-style rally in Michigan, where he touted his immigration crackdown, including implementing several through executive orders.
“I banned all welfare to illegals, and I signed an order that will end automatic citizenship for the children of illegal aliens,” Trump said to the crowd in Warren, Michigan.
The president’s attempt to end birthright citizenship – a right guaranteed by the Constitution under the 14th Amendment – was halted nationwide by three district courts. The case will be heard by the Supreme Court in June.
“[Former President Joe] Biden and the media told us that stopping the flood of illegal immigration was absolutely impossible. He said it was impossible. … that the president had no power to stop what was needed in the form of legislation, he needed legislation. He had no power to get it. But it turned out that all we needed was a new president,” Trump said.
Trump praised the Laken Riley Act, the first piece of legislation he signed in his second term, that requires law enforcement to detain any migrant who is charged with certain crimes, including ones that cause injury.
He said his administration had “increased arrests of known and suspected terrorists by 655%,” referring to people he described as drug traffickers and members of transnational gangs, adding that “We tried to get it higher, but the courts are giving us a hard time.”
The Trump administration has faced dozens of legal challenges on his immigration agenda in his second term alone.
"It has become ever more apparent that to our president, the rule of law is but an impediment to his policy goals," U.S. District Judge John Coughenour said in February in relation to the birthright citizenship executive order. "The rule of law is, according to him, something to navigate around or simply ignore, whether that be for political or personal gain."
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