Are Trump's Deportations Constitutional?

Glenn Greenwald debates Anna Gorisch on Trump's deportation policies.

Are Trump's Deportations Constitutional?

Glenn Greenwald and Anna K. Gorisch debate the resolution, "President Trump's deportation policies generally violate key civil liberties as set forth in the U.S. Constitution."

Arguing in favor of the resolution is Greenwald, a journalist and podcaster who won the 2014 Pulitzer Prize for Public Service for the National Security Agency–Edward Snowden revelations. He left The Intercept in 2020 to become independent and is now the host of System Update nightly on Rumble.

Opposing the resolution is Gorisch, an immigration attorney at Kendall Immigration Law, PLLC, in Austin, Texas, focusing on employment-based immigration.

The debate is moderated by Soho Forum Director Gene Epstein.

• Producer: John Osterhoudt

Comments

[Chumby]

The illegal alien rapefugees are being deported. Buh-bye. The apportionment game is being ended.

[SQRLSY]

"Are Trump's Deportations Constitutional?"

No one cares, since the Orange Orangutan from Satanistanistanistanistanistanistan pays no heed to such things anyway!!! He is Dear Orange Leader (Bleeder of the peons) for LIFE!!! Blessed Be Shit's Holy Name!

[Mother's Lament]

Fuck off, Shillsy.

[Don't look at me! ( Is the war over yet?)]

Hoo boy.

[sarcasmic]

Trump could shoot someone on 5th Ave and his defenders would cry”Lawfare!” if he was charged with murder. So his defenders certainly don’t care about the Constitution or the law. Never have. They only care about smiting their perceived enemies.

[Chumby]

Get help:

https://www.mainehealth.org/care-services/behavioral-health-care/substance-use-disorder-care-addiction/alcohol-use-disorder-mainehealth-behavioral-health

[SQRLSY]

"Mentally ill" or “insane”, my ass! Whoever disagrees with totalitarians is "mentally ill"! That makes YOU just like the communist totalitarian assholes of the USSR who used psychiatry to punish political dissidents, asshole!

Sure… All of those who disagree with MEEEE are… Mentally ILL!!! YES, this! Good authoritarians KNOW this already!

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Political_abuse_of_psychiatry_in_the_Soviet_Union

All of the GOOD totalitarians KNOW that those who oppose totalitarianism are mentally ill, for sure!!!

[sarcasmic]

My new stalker is posting the same link on all my posts. My hate club keeps growing and growing, unlike their patriarch’s pee pee.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Your savior/victim complex is a symptom of your failing mental health.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

I just pray for liver failure. It’s awful to watch my brother in law’s younger brother go through it, but Sarc is a malignant Neo Marxist, and probably has caused lifelong misery to anyone around him.

It’s best if his time comes sooner than later.

[KARate kid]

“It’s awful to watch my brother in law’s younger brother go through it”

Is he a domestic terrorist supporter like you? If he is then good riddance!

Also hopefully Thomas Creech outlives him.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Boring.

Youre not even good at trolling. Worse than sqrsly.

[Mother's Lament]

"Is he a domestic terrorist supporter like you?"

You mean like Antifa and BLM?

[KARate kid]

No, more treasonous and christofascist. He runs in the same circles as Matt Shea and referred to him as a “patriot.”

https://www.spokesman.com/stories/2019/dec/19/rep-matt-shea-engaged-in-domestic-terrorism-during/

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

Your trolling instincts are way off, faggot. That kind of shit does nothing. Do you have anything else, or is that it?

[KARate kid]

You move to Idaho yet?

Maybe you can find someone there to fill the role of great-uncle?

[Chumby]

Seek help:

https://maineaa.org/

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

They would probably hand him a gallon of Everclear and help him boozebong it, just to get rid of him.

[Chumby]

I’m promoting the IDEA of sobriety to him.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

I’m promoting the idea of suicide to him.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

You cheered locking up 1k non violent J6ers and killing an unarmed woman.

Tou cheer antifa setting buildings on fire.

You cheered locking up Mackey for a meme.

Do I need to go on? Have a lot more examples.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

And I’ll bet he’s cheering this too………

https://nypost.com/2025/08/12/us-news/adam-schiff-authorized-classified-intel-leaks-to-smear-trump-during-russiagate-whistleblower-claims/

FTA:
“Sen. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), then the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, authorized leaks of classified information to tarnish President Trump’s image during the Russiagate probe — having assumed he would lead the CIA in a Hillary Clinton administration, according to newly released whistleblower statements.

The unidentified male source, who worked as a Democratic staffer on the House Intelligence Committee for 12 years after more than two decades in the intelligence community, told FBI agents in December 2017 that the mood among the panel became “indescribable” after Trump’s upset win the year before.

“Ranking member [Schiff] was particularly upset, as he had believed he would have been appointed as the director of the CIA had candidate [Hillary Clinton] won the election,” according to a summary of the interview obtained by The Post.”

[DesigNate]

I’m still skeptical of “unidentified staffers”, though they’re a damn sight better than “anonymous sources” and “people familiar with the situation”, so I’ll take this with a grain of salt.

Having said that Schiff is a gigantic piece of shit, so I could totally see him doing something petty like that.

[Rick James]

To be fair, Trump could spend his afternoons in the Christian Science Reading room, and the #Resistance would prosecute him for murder and Sullum would write "reasonable, doo processesses!"

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Yes.

Next dumb question.

[Incunabulum]

Is there really a debate on this?

1. The power to deport has long been recognized.

2. The appellate courts keep siding with Trump in the legality of his actions.

[Incunabulum]

I guess this is one I will have to find time to listen to because I can understand how someone may not want people deported - I can't imagine under what rationale they would find that deportations are forbidden altogether.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

My guess under the infinite due process theory of the left.

[Chumby]

Those that want to keep the apportionment grift alive, don’t like liberty folks and seek population replacement, and those part of the govt handouts industrial complex.

[Nobartium]

Don't you know that the constitution applies to everyone, everywhere, in both time directions?

[James Basil]

This is a very interesting topic because for one both Republicans and democrats are divided on it! I'm not a conservative or a liberal and I fucking hate the label of independent because iv listened to some podcasts where the host is like I'm a independent but everything that comes out of there trap is woke liberal bullshit. I might be a libertarian I am very anti regulations and the government controlling are body's which both left and the right have no problem doing. Ok I'm going off topic! My thoughts on wether or not its constitutional to deport people comes down to why are they being deported? The trump administrations original so called plan was to get rid of violent groups of people who are not doing anything constructive to there communities. They didn't word it quite like I did but that shit was implied. Most Americans who are not the loons on the far left agreed with that. Now those same groups of people have changed there opinion except for those on the far right. I think it is unconstitutional to deport those who are good people in there community. Next question is how much power is to much and both the Biden's administration and the Trumps administration have done things that a dictator would have done. The Biden's administration crusade against the unvaccinated. The Trump administration targeting news organizations and universities that they disagreeed with. Ok now I'm done!

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Claims to not be on a side, repeats the democrat narratives. Lol.

[Quicktown Brix]

Jesse diagnoses another Democrat. Shocking!

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

It isn’t complicated Quixy. You democrats are pretty easy to pick out of a crowd.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

He should know the dem narratices above. He repeats them blindly as well. Maybe he isnt aware he is doing so, but he has shown a consistent lack of intellectual curiosity besides corporate media narratives.

[DesigNate]

It was probably this part:

“The trump administrations original so called plan was to get rid of violent groups of people”

They were pretty open and clear that they were going to go after everybody, so repeating this Dem talking point is just silly.

Personally, I thought the post read more like a bot who was fed some “both sides” prompts.

[Gaear Grimsrud]

The constitution gives the federal government the power and obligation to regulate immigration. It doesn't create exceptions for nice people. This is black letter law and always has been. It's also a political issue and Congress can modify anyway they want but deportation has never been illegal or unconstitutional.

[Liberty_Belle]

Follow due process, and very few ppl would care. Trump isn't following due process because he knows what he is doing is wrong. He is counting on booting them out before anyone gets around to asking whether it was legal or not so he doesn't have to actually answer for what he's doing. He's not even hiding it.

[Social Justice is neither]

Bullshit you lying commie cunt. Most of these people have been legally ordered out of the country and they refuse, the rest are here illegally and actively avoiding having that determination made. You just demand infinite do overs until time runs out.

[Chumby]

They are going back to their homes. Buh-bye.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

More vague claims from you. You’re almost as dumb as Tony.

Or would you care to back up your claims with specifics?

[Gaear Grimsrud]

God this due process shit is tiresome. Due process does not require that everybody or anybody gets a jury trial and the wizened judgement of a 3 judge appellate court panel. It only requires that similarly situated individuals receive the same process in the jurisdiction where they find themselves. That process is a political matter that can vary wildly from state to state. In the case of immigration the Congress has established immigration courts. These are title two courts not title three courts and are independent of the judiciary and are administered by the executive. Individuals who enter the country illegally or have violated the terms of their visa are subject to deportation. Period. Any claims of asylum are adjucated in the immigration court and well over 9 out of 10 will fail. This is the process Trump is using. Spurious claims that he is denying due process are either dishonest or just plain ignorant.

[SCOTUS gave JeffSarc a big sad]

They dishonestly claim that what Trump is doing is somehow new, and not based on long existing law. But that isn’t surprising, since most of our leftists here are very stupid, ignorant people.

[Incunabulum]

What is the due process?

They get a hearing in front of an immigration judge already and they have a deportation order from that judge.

[JesseAz (Prime Meanster of Sarcasia)]

Due process is being followed. Just because you're ignorant to what the term means doesn't mean it isnt being followed.

[John Rohan]

There is due process. The due process is verifying the migrant's identity and immigration status.

Deportation is not an administrative action, not a judicial one, so they aren't entitled to a judge and jury.

[John Rohan]

I think it is unconstitutional to deport those who are good people in there community.

So if an otherwise good person is squatting in your house, you think it would be unconstitutional to remove them?

[Fats of Fury]

Are Trump's Deportations Constitutional?

Were Hoover's Deportations Constitutional?

Were FDR's Deportations Constitutional?

Were Eisenhower's Deportations Constitutional?

Because they all deported millions of illegal Mexicans.

[Kungpowderfinger]

“It’s unconstitutional to deport Undocumented Democrats”
- Reason

[DesigNate]

I’ll give it a listen while I’m working tonight. I generally like Greenwald, he’s a decent journalist. He clings to a lot of his leftist biases though, so I can already guess at what his arguments for the resolution will be.