Are Trump's Policies on Illegal Immigration Legal?
Amanpour
CNN
4.1 • 1K Ratings
🗓️ 5 May 2025
⏱️ 54 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Hello, everyone and welcome to Ammanpur. Here's what's coming up. |
| 0:07.0 | I won on the basis of, I think the number one thing was on illegal immigration the border. |
| 0:14.0 | Trump's deportation spree and the youngest U.S. citizens caught up in the crackdown. |
| 0:20.0 | We bring you a report from Cuba and |
| 0:21.9 | talk with an expert. Then, rolling back regulations on climate, a look at the White House's |
| 0:28.1 | attempts to change the rules on fossil fuels and what it could mean for the world. And AI |
| 0:34.4 | in the hands of children, a useful tool or a reason to worry. |
| 0:39.0 | We discuss. |
| 0:40.2 | Plus, the president, the vice president, various members of the cabinet have all made clear |
| 0:45.3 | that they don't particularly plan to follow court orders. |
| 0:49.9 | MAGA's legal world, former federal prosecutor Brendan Ballou, talks to Michelle Martin about Attorney General Pam Bondi's Department of Justice and why more than 100 employees accepted an offer to resign. Welcome to the program, everyone. I'm Bianago-Ladriga in New York, sitting in for Christiana Amunpur. |
| 1:23.6 | Donald Trump's push to remove undocumented migrants now comes with a new offer, cash. |
| 1:29.6 | The Department of Homeland Security says it will give $1,000 to anyone who proves they self-deported |
| 1:34.9 | back to their home country. |
| 1:36.8 | The president says it's his hard-line stance on immigration that helped put him back in the |
| 1:41.5 | White House. |
| 1:42.5 | But opponents say Trump's deportation spree is at times running roughshod over the Constitution. |
| 1:48.0 | Listen to what Trump said to NBC over the weekend. |
| 1:51.8 | Your Secretary of State says everyone who's here, citizens and non-citizens deserve due process. |
| 1:56.6 | Do you agree, Mr. President? |
| 1:58.1 | I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. Don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as President? I don't know. I'm not a lawyer. I don't know. |
| 2:01.6 | Don't you need to uphold the Constitution of the United States as president? |
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