Fox News hosts suggested that undocumented immigrants should be stripped of due process rights after a federal judge indicated that the Trump administration may have defied a temporary restraining order by deporting alleged Venezuelan gang members.
During Monday's Fox & Friends broadcast, host Lawrence Jones noted that President Donald Trump has argued that some undocumented migrants don't deserve "due process" rights because of the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law.
Jones' remarks were first reported by Media Matters.
"So you have a constitutional right that is actually, they are afforded to illegals in this country. We should revisit that," Jones opined. "But then you have a competing act that is saying, hey, if someone is a part of a foreign terrorist organization that you don't have to give them due process and they can be deported."
"I think that's a great point with your law enforcement background especially," co-host Brian Kilmeade agreed. "But I also think it's not practical to think that we can do due process on 8 million people."
"That's right," co-host Rachel Campos-Duffy chimed in.
"There's 22 million people here at minimum, illegal already, just in the last three administrations," Kilmeade added. "And there are some people that got through with Trump's administration. If we are going to give ever these guys a day in court and a lawyer, we can't do it, they don't deserve it. Our system doesn't need to be double burdened."
