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TX rep has blunt view on deportations, realistic one about due process for 12 million

TX rep has blunt view on deportations, realistic one about due process for 12 million


TX rep has blunt view on deportations, realistic one about due process for 12 million

Rep. Brandon Gill, a freshman House Republican from Texas, has a blunt opinion about due process for illegal aliens.

“If you’re here illegally, the only process you’re due is deportation,” he wrote on X Wednesday  in a post that has generated 4.5 million views and thousands of comments.

Gill, however, hasn’t convinced enough in the judiciary to take his side.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Saturday blocked, at least for now, deportations of Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center north of Abilene in West Texas.

Donald Trump’s administration was ordered not to remove the convicted criminals “until further order of this court,” the justices wrote.

The ruling came in response to an emergency appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union arguing that immigration authorities appeared to be working to resume deportation plans for migrants under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

The high court had earlier ruled that the administration could conduct deportations under the Act as long as illegal immigrants were given “due process” to challenge their removal from the U.S.

But American citizens were not given due process to challenge the unlawful entry of millions and millions of unvetted immigrants at the southern border during Joe Biden’s presidency.

What’s lacking is context, Gill said on American Family Radio Thursday.

“We’ve got to put this into the context of the past four years whenever Biden and the Democrats flooded our country with tens of millions of illegal aliens who had no process whenever they came in. In fact that at times the administration even facilitated this mass illegal immigration, didn’t know who these people were, what countries they were coming from, their backgrounds, didn’t know anything,” Gill told show host Jenna Ellis.

Gill, Rep. Brandon (R-Texas) Gill

During that time American people lacked due process because they “had no say in it the entire time,” Gill said.

Americans were told they needed to understand the issues in foreign countries that led to mass migration and were told there was nothing the Biden administration could do because flawed U.S. immigration laws in dire need of revision, Gill said.

Yet border crossings began to drop as soon as Trump took office on Jan. 20.

White House estimates say illegal crossings decreased from more than 250,000 per month during the Biden administration to fewer than 9,000 in February of 2025.

“All of the sudden Democrats are obsessed with due process whenever it's time to deport these people who came here illegally,” Gill said.

Gill, the son-in-law of conservative commenter and filmmaker Dinesh D’Souza, has been a strong voice against illegal immigration since assuming office for his first Congressional term on Jan. 3.

Gill’s record on illegal immigration

Gill has supported fortifying the Texas border and mass deportations, including for a Muslim Democrat member of Congress, saying Rep. Ilhan Omar’s advice to illegal aliens being questioned by Immigration Customs Enforcement (ICE) officials amounts to support for an invasion of the country.

A video posted on X showed Somalia-born Omar advising Somalis in her Minneapolis, Minnesota district that they were “not obligated” to answer questions from ICE or provide basic information such as name, immigration status or mode of entry into the country.

Judicial rulings that bend over backwards to require “lengthy court proceedings” before the Trump administration deportations can make a dent into the millions of illegals allowed and brought here by the Biden administration is justice denied for U.S. citizens, Gill said.

However the ongoing fight plays out will have an impact for decades and decades into the future, he said.

“We all know that whenever there are 10 million, 15 million or 20 million people we’re trying to deport, if every single one of them has to have a multi-year court hearing even after we know that they're here illegally, then you're basically just shutting down deportations,” Gill said.

“If one Democrat president can flood our country with illegal aliens, and future presidents cannot deport them regardless of what the American people want, we don't have a country anymore.”

Gill in March filed articles of impeachment against James Boasberg, the Obama appointee to Washington, D.C., District Court, who fought Trump over the deportation of a planeload of suspected gang members to El Salvador.

Continuing the fight requires state and federal resources together, but there can be a legislative solution to the immigration crisis, he says.

“It’s all of the above,” he said. Earlier this month the House passed “the No Rogue Rulings Act which stops District Court Judges from issuing nationwide injunctions. The Senate’s got to take up that bill.”

Funding through budget reconciliation

Gill pointed to financial pressure the House can place on the judiciary.

“There are a lot of different things we can pursue, and we’re looking through all of those right now,” he said.

As Congress continues budget reconciliation talks, administration officials tell House members one of the best ways they can help is to make sure money is available to resume the deportation process.

Gill expects the bill to include around $200 billion for border security.

“We’re still ironing out some of the details,” he said.