During an appearance on MSNBC on Sunday morning, the Director of Immigration Studies at the conservative Cato Institute fired back at the White House's Stephen Miller for trying to override the Constitution to snatch up immigrants and ship them out of the country.
Speaking with the hosts of MSNBC's "The Weekend," Cato's David Bier shot down Donald Trump's key adviser's contention that the law, particularly the notion of due process, can't halt his immigrant purge.
"They do know how to do this," he said of the Trump administration. "And ultimately, this time around, they just said, 'No, we're just not going to cooperate with the fundamental process of our constitution.' And they just keep coming back to this point."
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"I'll say this again, that Stephen Miller will go on Fox News and they'll say, they elected us to do this –– and that does not matter!' he continued. "Under our Constitution, elections do not change laws. They do not change our Constitution. So they could –– every single person who voted him could have voted for him in order to do this, which is certainly not the case."
"I know many Trump voters who do not support this, but even if it was the case, it didn't change our Constitution," he added. "It did not amend habeas corpus out of the Constitution when Americans voted in November. If you want to do that, you've got to change the Constitution through the proper procedure."
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