President Donald Trump is once again showing complete disregard for the Constitution by once again floating his idea to deport U.S. citizens who commit crimes.
According to Trump, naturalized American citizens who have committed any crimes in the U.S. should have their legal status revoked—this coming from a 34-time convicted felon.
“They’re not new to our country. They’re old to our country. Many of them were born in our country. I think we ought to get them the hell out of here, too, if you want to know the truth,” Trump told reporters during a tour of a migrant detention center in the Florida Everglades. “So maybe that will be the next job.”
The detention center, nicknamed “Alligator Alcatraz” by Florida Attorney General James Uthmeier, is surrounded by wetlands of the Big Cypress National Preserve and is home to a diverse array of wildlife, including pythons, alligators and mosquitoes—meant to deter prisoners from any hope of escaping the facility.
“It’s very appropriate, because I looked outside and it’s not a place I want to go hiking anytime soon,” said Trump. “We’re surrounded by miles of treacherous swamp land, and the only way out is really deportation.”
“What’ll happen is you’ll bring people in there, they ain’t going anywhere once they’re there unless you want them to go somewhere, because, good luck getting to civilization,” Florida Governor Ron DeSantis also stated earlier this week. “So the security is amazing — natural and otherwise.”
The president also floated the idea of having Florida National Guard forces serve as immigration judges to expedite the deportation process.
“Pretty soon, this facility will handle the most menacing migrants, some of the most vicious people on the planet,” Trump said.
Trump’s remarks come on the heels of a memo, published on June 11, that urged the Justice Department’s civil division to “prioritize and maximally pursue denaturalization proceedings in all cases permitted by law and supported by the evidence.”
According to data from 2023, nearly 25 million immigrants became naturalized citizens. Trump’s administration aims to target these migrants as well as former DOGE leader, Elon Musk, who has publicly criticized Trump’s ‘Big, Beautiful Bill’ and threatened to launch his own political party, The America Party, in retaliation.
“We’ll have to take a look. We might have to put DOGE on Elon. You know what DOGE is? DOGE is the monster that might have to go back and eat Elon. Wouldn’t that be terrible? He gets a lot of subsidies,” he said when asked whether he would deport Musk.
