President Donald Trump lashed out at the U.S. Supreme Court on Monday, blasting its latest decision that paused his administration’s efforts to deport migrants accused of being gang members.
Trump said the court is making it impossible for him to do what he was elected to do: remove violent criminals from the country. “My team is fantastic, doing an incredible job, however, they are being stymied at every turn by even the U.S. Supreme Court,” Trump wrote on Truth Social. He added that the Court “seemingly doesn’t want me to send violent criminals and terrorists back to Venezuela, or any other Country, for that matter.”
Trump took aim at the idea of giving every migrant a trial before deportation. “We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years,” he wrote. “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.”
The Supreme Court stepped in over the weekend, stopping deportation flights that were reportedly headed to El Salvador, including one carrying Venezuelan migrants. The administration had planned to use the Alien Enemies Act to fast-track the deportations. The law was originally passed in 1798 to deal with wartime threats.
Though Venezuela hasn’t been officially blocking deportation flights, Trump used the moment to blast the courts for slowing him down.
One case that’s ignited debate is that of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, a man from El Salvador who had been living in Maryland. Immigration officials deported him earlier this month—despite a Supreme Court order halting removals. He ended up in a notorious mega-prison in El Salvador.
The Supreme Court told the administration to bring him back. Trump has made it clear he has no plans to follow that ruling. Instead, the administration released documents accusing Abrego Garcia of being connected to MS-13—a claim based on a single anonymous tip. Officials also mentioned past allegations of domestic abuse, which his wife later dropped.
Sen. Chris Van Hollen (D-Md.), who recently visited Abrego Garcia in the El Salvador prison, warned this case could set a dangerous precedent. “If you deny the constitutional rights of one man, you threaten the constitutional rights and due process for everyone else in America,” Van Hollen said on Meet the Press.
Trump also brought up other deportation cases tied to tattoos. One Venezuelan man was labeled a gang member because of tattoos that said “mom” and “dad” in Spanish under a crown. Friends said the design celebrated the Three Kings holiday, not gang affiliation. Another man, a soccer player, had tattoos referencing Real Madrid, but officials flagged them as possible gang signs.
In his Truth Social post, Trump praised conservative Justice Samuel Alito, who had criticized the Court’s decision to block deportations in a late-night order. Alito wrote the Court acted “literally in the middle of the night” and called the decision “unprecedented and legally questionable.”
Alito added, “I refused to join the Court’s order because we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate.”
“He is right on this!,” Trump said. “If we don’t get these criminals out of our Country, we are not going to have a Country any longer.”
