Steve was quoted by the South China Morning Post in Trump Names Architects of His Promised Mass Deportation Policy. Citing the due process clause of the U.S. Constitution, he said that “people have a right to a hearing before they can be deported. If they have applied for asylum, that means they’re in immigration court and they cannot be summarily deported without finding out whether their asylum claim is valid.” Steve said that the Trump administration “will have to ask Congress for more money to hire more ICE agents, to create more detention camps, to pay for planes, etc., so you’re not going to see a lot of mass deportations on Day One.” He also noted that immigration courts are facing massive backlogs: “We already have 3.7 million cases in immigration court.”
