Steve was quoted by the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation in Trump Wants to Use a 226-Year-Old Law to Deport Millions of Undocumented Migrants. Can He Do It? He said, “If Trump were to try to use the normal procedures, it would [be to] round up a lot of people and put them into immigration court proceedings. But it would be a long time before they could actually be deported.” During those proceedings, an immigration judge would decide whether those individuals were deportable or entitled to some type of relief from deportation, such as asylum, he said. Due to backlogs, “[m]any cases are being scheduled for four or five years from now,” Steve noted, adding that if the future President Trump follows current deportation procedures, he would need money to hire more judges and immigration agents, and build more detention centers.
