NBC’s Cevallos: ‘The Trump Administration Is Removing People with Ruthless Efficiency’

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CEVALLOS: “The Trump administration is removing people with ruthless efficiency. Let me just give you an example. The habeas petitions are the petitions that people are filing to challenge their detention. The rules for this kind of petition are that it has to be filed in the place where you're being detained. One thing they've been doing is transferring people so quickly that they don't have a chance to file that petition. And in some cases, they're already out of the country. So where is the jurisdiction once they're out of the country? And once they're out of the country the administration takes the position that, 'Hey, it's no longer our problem.' So one of the things the Trump administration has been unbelievably good at in the last few weeks and months is finding legal ways to achieve what it wants, ways that are often parts of a subsection of a statute that is -- that no one has ever really used before. I mean, for example, the provision of federal law that allows removal or removal of people who the secretary of state deems would have adverse foreign policy consequences.”