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WH Press Secretary Sarah Sanders: Due Process Doesn’t Require a Judge

After Trump tweeted that immigrants should be turned around at the border.

White House Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders attempted Monday to defend President Donald Trump’s claim that immigrants seeking asylum should not be seen by a judge. In a pair of tweets Monday morning, Trump attacked due process and argued that immigrants should immediately be refused at the border, writing that “Hiring manythousands [sic] of judges, and going through a long and complicated legal process, is not the way to go - will always be disfunctional [sic]. People must simply be stopped at the Border and told they cannot come into the U.S. illegally.” “If this is done, illegal immigration will be stopped in it’s [sic] tracks - and at very little, by comparison, cost,” he added. When a reporter asked Sanders about the tweets during a press briefing, she responded that “Just because you don’t see a judge doesn’t mean you aren’t receiving due process,” according to a tweet from Politico. It seems unlikely, however, that blocking immigrants at the border would fulfill the requirements of due process, which states that no person, citizen or non-citizen, “be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law.”