President Donald Trump said that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) raids carried out by his administration have not gone “far enough” because they have been hampered by “liberal judges.”
Trump, who campaigned on enacting mass deportations, defended his illegal immigration crackdown during an interview on “60 Minutes” broadcast on Sunday. When asked by CBS correspondent Norah O’Donnell about accusations of ICE tear-gassing neighborhoods and similar tactics, the president stood by his administration’s efforts.
“I think they haven’t gone far enough because we’ve been held back by the judges, by the liberal judges that were put in by Biden and by Obama,” Trump said.
Judges have blocked Trump’s efforts to deport suspected Venezuelan gang members under the Alien Enemies Act and efforts to carry out speedy deportations.
The Trump administration has conducted ICE raids in major cities across the country that have often prompted violent reactions. Over the summer, riots broke out in Los Angeles County after federal agents started making arrests in the area. In recent weeks, ICE has been active in the Chicago area, and federal efforts have faced major protests.
Trump reiterated that he supported ICE being aggressive when asked by O’Donnell about his administration’s tactics.
“You have to get the people out. You know, you have to look at the people. Many of them are murderers. Many of them are people that were thrown out of their countries because they were, you know, criminals,” Trump said. “Many of them are people from jails and prisons. Many of them are people from, frankly, mental institutions. I feel badly about that, but they’re released from insane asylums. You know why? Because they’re killers.”
Trump said that more than 11,000 illegal immigrant murderers had been released into the country, and that over half of those had killed multiple people. He said the deportation efforts were focusing on getting the “bad ones” out of the country.
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“We have to start off with a policy, and the policy has to be you came into the country illegally, you’re gonna go out,” Trump said. “We’re gonna work with you, and you’re gonna come back into our country legally. Because we have a lotta good people. We have some great people.”
