![]() Trump told 60 Minutes’ Scott Pelley that this massive round-up of undocumented immigrants would be carried out “in a very humane way, a very nice way.” “We’re rounding them up in a very human way, a very nice way.”ĭonald Trump has repeatedly pledged to deport within two years every undocumented person in the United States, a population of over 11 million people, according to the Pew Research Center. As always, we are standing guard to ensure that the rule of law always remains stronger than the rule of one man.Ĭlick to read our lawyers’ analysis in full (PDF) ![]() But you can also be certain that the ACLU will fight in the courts, in Congress, and in the public square to preserve the rights guaranteed to all people by the Constitution and our Bill of Rights.ĭonald Trump may believe the president is above the law, but he is mistaken. Have no doubt about it: Donald Trump’s policies, if implemented, would trigger a constitutional crisis. (Donald Trump, after all, changes his positions all of the time.) The ACLU and its more than 300 attorneys in all 50 states, Puerto Rico, and Washington, D.C., stand ready to challenge and impede implementation of his proposals, should he see them through. government will spark legal and constitutional challenges that will require all hands on deck at the ACLU. If Donald Trump is elected president and tries to implement any of these proposed policies, he and the U.S. According to our analysis, Trump’s proposals taken together would violate the First, Fourth, Fifth, and Eighth Amendments to the Constitution. We have found them all wanting, to say the least. These include his pledges to deport over 11 million undocumented immigrants, to ban Muslims from entering the United States, to surveil American Muslims and their houses of worship, to torture again, and to revise libel laws. In the event of a Trump presidency, we have undertaken a constitutional analysis of his most controversial policy proposals. Taken together, his statements and policy proposals would blatantly violate the inalienable rights guaranteed by the Constitution, federal and international law, and the basic norms of a free and decent society. Throughout his presidential campaign, Trump has sparked controversy after controversy with his stated positions on immigration, American Muslims, torture, and the core First Amendment protections that define America. One year later, Donald Trump has all but clinched the Republican nomination for the president of the United States. They’re rapists.” Towards the end of his speech, Trump double downed on his Mexican fear-mongering, promising to “build a great, great wall on our southern border” at Mexico’s expense if he were elected president. “They’re sending people that have lots of problems, and they’re bringing those problems with us. “When Mexico sends its people, they’re not sending their best,” he said. The ACLU is non-partisan, but we have to take action when so much is at stake During his speech, Trump basked in the crowd - which included paid actors cheering his name and wearing t-shirts with his campaign slogan, “Make America Great Again” - before uttering some of the statements that would make him such a polarizing force in American politics. Trump, was announcing his candidacy to become the Republican Party’s 2016 nominee for president of the United States of America. Last June, Donald Trump rode down the escalator of his Trump Tower to the tune of Neil Young’s “Rockin’ in the Free World” to deliver a message: He, Donald J. This piece was originally published on on July 13, 2016.
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