A.G. Gancarski
As the Donald Trump administration pushes to remove illegal immigrants they say are linked to transnational criminal gangs, U.S. Sen. Ashley Moody is defending the process and the strategy of limiting due process in these cases.
“There are exceptions in terms of who is eligible for expedited removal, especially when they came in and started designating some of these cartel members and cartels as foreign terrorist organizations,” said Florida’s junior Senator on “Fox & Friends First.”
Moody was responding to a Trump interview on ABC News about due process for this class of suspects, in which the President said his administration does “follow the legal process” but “can’t have a trial, a major trial, for every person that came in illegally.”
“They get a process where we have to get them out,” Trump clarified.
The President has stood firm behind this position.
“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 earlier this month, via The New York Times. “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 added. “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.”
Others take a different view. The American Civil Liberties Union and multiple local chapters sued Trump in January, for example.
The case of Kilmar Armando Abrego Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador despite a lower court trying to block the action, has brought the practice into sharp relief, particularly given the Supreme Court’s unanimous ruling that he should be brought back to the U.S. from the Center for Terrorism and Confinement (CECOT), a prison in El Salvador. The Trump administration is paying to house prisoners there.
But despite court rulings, the Trump administration policy is moving forward. Moody’s take is that the end justifies the means.
“I am watching our Attorney General Pam Bondi, Kristi Noem, Tom Homan work diligently every day, using the law to their advantage and making sure they’re removing people as fast as they can that could be a danger to American citizens,” she said.
“It’s unprecedented. And again, I commend them for being aggressive, just as aggressive, in building back and fixing the security of this nation and removing people, as Joe Biden was and his henchmen in breaking it down.”
Republicans, including Moody as Florida’s Attorney General, railed against the Biden administration’s penchant for executive action they framed as extralegal.
All told, 65,000 undocumented immigrants were removed from the country in the first hundred days of the Trump administration as it prioritizes reversing the tide of illegal immigration.
16 comments
Michael K
April 30, 2025 at 8:51 am
How convenient if they also include people who are American citizens, or people who oppose the administration! Oopsie!
No, Ashley. All people means all people.
TruthBTold
April 30, 2025 at 9:05 am
Illegal Immigrants are getting their due process, as outlined by US Law. You can’t just makeup new processes for them, unless you want to prevent the Rule of Law, which NO ONE is above.
EARL PITTS "Sage Jurisprudance Expert" American
April 30, 2025 at 9:23 am
Sage wisdom there, TruthBTold,
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EARL PITTS “Sage Jurisprudance Expert” American
Along for the Ride
April 30, 2025 at 9:26 am
Seems like Trump is above the law.
MH/Duuuval
April 30, 2025 at 7:39 pm
Trump is not above the law, but he exemplifies the scofflaw supremo.
EARL PITTS "Sage Jurisprudance Expert" American
April 30, 2025 at 9:07 am
Good Morn ‘Ting America,
STAND BY FOR SAGE WISDOM:
99.9999999% of all Americans agree with The Sage Ashley Moody, our Attorney General Pam Bondi, Attorney General Kristi Noem, Tom Homan’s views on:
1. ) Getting these cartel members and cartels as foreign terrorist organizations, “The €FF out of, this our Great Nation ASAP and without “Lawfare Interference” from “DOOK 4 BRAINS LEFTY LEANING JUDGES”.
IN CLOSING:
Relax your Political Sphincters, America, and rejoice in the knowledge that I, EARL PITTS “Sage Jurisprudance Expert” American, am “On The Job 24/7” in these next few months prior to all the “DOOK 4 BRAINS LEFTY’S & RINOS” settling THE €FF down from TDS [AKA TRUMP DERRANGEMENT SYNDROM],
Yours Truley,
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Along for the Ride
April 30, 2025 at 9:39 am
Moody’s take is that the end justifies the means. – this is not right and its happening in National Politics and in the state of FL. The means should be justified to get to the end.
She is not wrong in a sense that illegal immigrants have less rights than an American citizen however ALL HUMANS in the USA regardless of legal citizen status have basic human rights and due process. If the government is accusing you of being a gang member, terrorist, murderer, etc you should be able to prove in a court of law why you are not what they say you are. The Alien Enemies Act has ONLY been used in times of war that was approved by congress. Are we at war with anyone? No. We are not at war with gangs or anything. I think it was very wrong for the supreme court to allow him to continue to be shielded by this law when it has ONLY been used 3 times in our nations history! 3 times!! If he wants people to be deported, more judges are needed in order to handle the huge influx of immigration cases and move things along quicker not get rid of judges.
Bill Pollard
April 30, 2025 at 10:10 am
All deportations still must follow due process, which means the person at risk of being deported gets some sort of hearing with aid by a person speaking his or her first language. We cannot keep deporting persons with legitimate reasons for being here, especially US citizens.
Bored in Tally
April 30, 2025 at 10:36 am
Due process has not always been a requirement of all deportation cases until the courts interjected themselves, figuratively and literally. Let’s not forget that President Obama deported 5.3 Million people, most with little to no due process. That’s a rate of 178,000 every 100 days. Trump has only deported 100,000 in his first 100 days. At this rate, Trump will only deport 1,460,000 by the end of his term. If it wasn’t a problem under Obama, why is it a problem under Trump? Oh yeah, it’s because he isn’t on your team.
MH/Duuuval
April 30, 2025 at 7:49 pm
Obama targeted criminal elements among migrants, not families or children. Trump and Homan hit fast and break things without concern about collateral human damage. And, when confronted with evidence of unlawful removal, Trump shrugs and proposes that it is a matter for others to resolve.
Rob Desantos
April 30, 2025 at 11:52 am
Actually there aren’t, you useless idi0t Ashley. Maybe go back to a real law school instead of your state’s flagship R3publiQan drone factory.
SuzyQ
May 2, 2025 at 1:07 am
How ’bout Harvard and Yale, where America’s Governor graduated with honors?
PeterH
April 30, 2025 at 12:24 pm
Moody and Trump’s analysis is why this administration’s job approval rating is the lowest of ANY PRIOR ADMINISTRATION in the past seven decades!
R. Russell
April 30, 2025 at 1:58 pm
Non citizens who enter the USA illegally are illegally in our country and should be required to leave and if interested file application from their home country to enter America, the legal way. If not, they should be sent back across the border from whence they came, be it Mexico or Canada and let Mexico or Canada deal with them!
Michael K
April 30, 2025 at 3:38 pm
Fun fact: Congress makes immigration law. Congress.. Not the president. Congress had a bipartisan deal. But the current president torpedoed any chance of reform because he sees immigrants as nothing more than scapegoats to gin up his base. Without scapegoats he has no one else to blame.
LexT
May 1, 2025 at 10:15 am
Illegal Immigrants are not citizens by definition. Democrats decided not to enforce the border and we got like 20 million of illegal immigrants in the Country. We can’t afford to provide them trials. We shouldn’t need to. We act like we don’t have any immigration law, passed by both the House and Senate and signed by the President that have been in place for generations. Those laws were broken and not enforced properly until a trickle became a torrent. We are fixing it now, but no, non-citizens are not guaranteed a full trial.
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