WTH: Does Every Deportation Require Due Process? Jonathan Turley Explains
What the Hell Is Going On
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🗓️ 15 May 2025
⏱️ 58 minutes
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Summary
America’s immigration law and system are broken. President Biden allowed millions of people to enter the United States illegally. And now President Trump is using obscure laws to try to fast-track a massive deportation campaign. Expedited removal and deportations without court hearings are legal and supported by the vast majority of Americans. However, members of Congress have the power to clarify immigration laws and fix a system clogged up by an influx of asylum cases – if they choose to use it. How many deportation cases actually require a court hearing? And how can Trump work with Congress to further his immigration agenda?
Jonathan Turley is the Shapiro Professor of Public Interest Law at George Washington University. At GWU, he is also the Director of the Environmental Law Advocacy Center and Executive Director of the Project for Older Prisoners. Professor Turley has served as counsel in some of the most notable cases in the last two decades, including the representation of whistleblowers, military personnel, judges, and members of Congress, and has testified before Congress over 100 times. His latest book is The Indispensable Right: Free Speech in an Age of Rage (Simon and Schuster, 2024).
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| 0:00.0 | This podcast is brought to you by the American Enterprise Institute. |
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| 0:07.0 | Thanks for listening. Here's our show. |
| 0:08.7 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:10.4 | What's really going on? |
| 0:12.0 | We said, what the hell happened? |
| 0:13.5 | You don't have to know what the hell is on it. |
| 0:15.6 | They see what's going on. |
| 0:16.7 | I don't know what's going on. |
| 0:18.2 | What is going on? |
| 0:19.6 | We must find out what's going on. What is going on? We must find out what is going on. |
| 0:28.7 | Hi, I'm Danielle Pletka. |
| 0:30.6 | I'm Mark Tiesen. |
| 0:31.9 | Welcome to our podcast. |
| 0:33.3 | What the hell is going on? |
| 0:36.1 | Mark, what the hell is not going on? I can't even name anything. |
| 0:40.6 | Everything is happening. Yes. Well, what we're talking about today is the border and deportation. |
| 0:46.6 | So Donald Trump has successfully proven that the Biden border crisis was, in fact, a crisis of choice. He has shut down the |
| 0:56.0 | southern border. Encounters with illegal migrants are down 94%. In March, we have the smallest |
| 1:02.7 | number of apprehensions ever, ever on record. Biden could have done this, but he didn't do it. |
| 1:10.1 | Instead, he let eight million people, or Trump would say 12 million, 10 million, 20 million, who knows what the number is, a lot of millions of people into this country. And now the Democrats, having allowed these people to come in by choice, are now fighting Trump's efforts to deport the people |
| 1:29.7 | that they let in illegally into the country. You've got Chris Van Halen going down to El Salvador |
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