On Saturday, Rep. Greg Casar (D-TX) spoke with a reporter on CNN about the Supreme Court blocking Trump's deportation of Venezuelan migrants
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00:00Congressman Kassar, great to see you.
00:04Hi there, thanks for having me on.
00:05Wonderful.
00:06So what are your concerns about whether the White House will even respect the U.S. Supreme Court ruling?
00:14Look, these issues aren't just about immigration.
00:18They are about the civil liberties and the basic rights of every single American.
00:25What Donald Trump has done is that he has targeted innocent families, sent them on flights to a prison camp in El Salvador outside of American rule of law, outside of being able to see a lawyer, and is basically saying, who cares if the Supreme Court or any of our laws matter or apply to him?
00:47We do not have a king in the United States of America, and that protects all of our rights.
00:52So we should all be concerned when Donald Trump, instead of protecting people's public safety or following the law, goes into ports like he did here in Texas, a 10-year-old U.S. citizen with brain cancer, just because they were targeting her parents.
01:07Or when they targeted somebody for having an autism awareness tattoo and said that that was a gang symbol.
01:13Look, these are the sorts of things that affect not just immigrants, not just non-citizens, but the basic rights of every single person.
01:21The president must follow the laws of the land and follow orders from the Supreme Court.
01:27Even outside of this court ruling or any court ruling, we heard the president say that he would also want to send homegrown criminals to, say, the prison in El Salvador or beyond.
01:42So the president has made it very clear what his point of view is and what his intention might be.
01:49What are you hoping Congress will do if the White House were to continue to defy court orders, including this U.S. Supreme Court order?
01:59The courts should be the check on the president when he breaks the law.
02:07The Congress should use every single tool at our disposal to hold the president accountable.
02:14We shouldn't be acting like it's business as usual in the Congress if Trump has defined these court orders.
02:20And the people of the United States have to be the ultimate check on this president.
02:24Look, I'm on the road right now, clearly, between different parts of Texas, talking and having town halls in Republican areas.
02:31And what I hear from voters, including those who voted for Donald Trump, is that they were voting for public safety.
02:38They didn't think that they were voting for Trump to take law enforcement officers off of working on homicide cases, off of working on cartels that are moving guns and putting those officers on deporting innocent people and innocent families and breaking the law.
02:55And so ultimately, I think the people of the United States are going to be the ultimate check on this out of control, not just president, but all these members of Congress that go along with him like his employees instead of acting like representatives of the people.