The Law Behind Trump's Immigration Agenda with Gene Hamilton

So there are no shortage of ridiculous things that are out there.

But I wanted to start with one that's gotten a lot of people riled up over the last few weeks.

It's surprising to me that it took the left quite so long to try to gin the story up, but they did.

And this one is on so-called, quote-unquote, third country deportations.

So if you read some of these stories, and we'll give a number of them to you, you look and it seems as though the Trump administration is just taking people, sending them willy-nilly just wherever they want to for no apparent reason, no justification, completely against the law.

How could this ever be? This is the United States of America.

Blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.

So let's talk about what the law actually says.

Let's talk about what the policy actually

is, and then we'll get into some

details and some specifics.

So as a preliminary factual matter, everybody knows, well, it's not always the case with visa overstays.

A lot of them came directly from their home country.

But if you are an illegal alien, who has come to the United States, and you are not a Mexican national, which describes a large number, a significant portion of the illegal aliens coming to the United States.

Every

year, at least especially during the Biden administration, the border is essentially shut down now with zero releases, as the administration has touted.

But what we are talking about here is for decades, nationals from other countries traversed up through Mexico and made it into the United States.

And they began living their life, working, doing whatever the case may be.

So these are individuals who came from a foreign country and traversed through at least one other foreign country, that being Mexico in most cases.

There's a little bit of stuff from Canada, but mostly from Mexico and then into the United States.

In some cases, you're talking about people who journeyed from the other side of the world, flew to somewhere like, I don't know, Brazil or Ecuador or Colombia or Venezuela, and then went through multiple countries all the way through Central America, through Mexico, and then landed in the United States.

And then they come here, and they live, they work, and then they get caught, and they get subject to removal proceedings.

So I laid out all of that background for a reason, and we'll get to it in just a little bit, and you'll see what we're talking about here.

So DHS, ICE in particular, puts these illegal aliens in removal proceedings.

Not always.