An Absurd Rationale for Provoking a Constitutional Crisis

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

56% : ICE has the ability right now to hold fewer than 50,000 people in detention -- and it is currently operating at that max capacity.
38% : If ICE is "sending five guys to arrest one Venezuelan gangbanger, you're not going to get big numbers that way.
37% : The standoff between Trump and the Supreme Court over the law has taken the country to the brink of a constitutional crisis.
34% : But even with higher detention capacity, it's going to be difficult for Trump to get to his goal of 1 million people deported this year.
27% : Trump now claims that he has been "stymied at every turn by even the U.S. Supreme Court ... which seemingly doesn't want me to send violent criminals and terrorists back to Venezuela, or any other Country."
26% : Third, Trump seems reluctant, for now, to carry out the kind of worksite raids at scale that could greatly increase the number of deportations.
25% : But the high court has not yet ruled on the merits of whether Trump can invoke the Alien Enemies Act against Tren de Aragua.
25% : But on April 10, Trump indicated he was wary of such raids on a large scale.
23% : According to U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE), last year 3,706 "known or suspected gang members" were deported -- not far below the 4,276 "known or suspected" gang members deported during the last year of Trump's first term.
20% : " Trump himself wrote earlier this week in response to a Supreme Court order temporarily halting deportations under the Alien Enemies Act: "We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years."
12% : Deporting members of criminal gangs is no doubt a higher priority than deporting other illegal immigrants, but -- contrary to the claims of Miller, Vance, and Trump -- nothing supports the notion that illegal immigrants are entitled to million-dollar jury trials that would take centuries to carry out.

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