President Trump on Monday expressed frustration with the U.S. judicial system, including the Supreme Court, as his administration faces legal pushback over its plans to deport migrants accused of gang affiliations. He argued that the courts are making it impossible to carry out swift removals and insisted that providing full trials to each migrant would be unworkable.
Posting on Truth Social, Trump said his administration is “doing an incredible job,” but being “stymied at every turn” including by justices he once praised. His comments came just two days after the Supreme Court intervened to temporarily halt deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act, which the administration had invoked to begin sending Venezuelan migrants to detention in El Salvador.
“I have such great respect for the U.S. Supreme Court,” Trump wrote, “but it seemingly doesn’t want me to send violent criminals and terrorists back to Venezuela, or any other Country, for that matter.”
Although Trump framed the situation as the court preventing deportations to Venezuela, the administration is not barred from sending migrants there the issue is that Venezuela has historically refused to accept many of them.
Trump then argued it was “not possible” to provide due process to every migrant the administration aims to deport, stating that such an effort would be overwhelmingly time-consuming.
“We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years,” he posted. “We would need hundreds of thousands of trials for the hundreds of thousands of Illegals we are sending out of the Country. Such a thing is not possible to do. What a ridiculous situation we are in.”
His remarks seem aimed at pushing back on critics and legal experts who have raised concerns about violations of due process, particularly in cases like Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a Maryland resident mistakenly deported to a prison in El Salvador despite a court order meant to prevent his removal. Many of the individuals targeted for deportation under the administration’s expanded enforcement orders have not been charged with any crime and dispute allegations of gang involvement.
The administration’s effort to use the Alien Enemies Act a rarely invoked 18th-century law to justify mass deportations has sparked legal battles and drawn both domestic and international scrutiny. The Supreme Court’s involvement now places added uncertainty on how far Trump can go with his deportation plans and whether constitutional protections can be bypassed in the name of national security.
Criticism continues to mount, and legal analysts note that the courts may continue to be a major obstacle for Trump as his immigration agenda faces intense legal and political resistance.
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