Trump Taken By Surprise By Question On Deportations: ‘I Don’t Know’ | EUROtoday

President Donald Trump on Wednesday appeared unaware that his administration was planning to deport immigrants to Libya, a rustic suffering from armed battle and brutal human rights violations, regardless of studies revealing as rather more than per week in the past.

CNN cited unnamed sources final month who stated the Trump administration has mentioned transporting asylum-seekers taken into custody on the U.S. border to Libya. Three officers stated Tuesday that the U.S. might begin deporting folks to Libya as early as this week.

When requested throughout an Oval Office press convention Wednesday whether or not his administration could be “sending migrants to Libya,” nevertheless, Trump responded with the identical obliviousness he displayed in a far much less consequential reply at some point prior about soccer.

“I don’t know,” Trump informed reporters. “You’ll have to ask Homeland Security, please.”

The response left critics aghast, as Trump himself just lately accused former President Joe Biden of being equally unaware of his personal insurance policies whereas in workplace — and Trump’s crackdown on immigration has already prompted dire questions on due course of.

“I am sorry who exactly is running the country? Your answer to any question is I don’t know ask someone else. Tell me again about Bidens autopen Presidency,” wrote one consumer on X, previously Twitter, with one other commenting: “Why is this an acceptable answer?”

“I mean, he talked endless shit about not believing Biden is … aware of what was going on during his term,” the consumer continued, “but Trump is flat out telling us himself that he doesn’t know what is happening on his watch and that is just fine?”

U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy, who beforehand discovered that any migrants deported to nations aside from their homelands should first be given the possibility to argue that their removing would jeopardize their security, reiterated the ruling Wednesday in a written order.

The doc was signed in response to a request from immigration legal professionals for a bunch of migrants in South Texas, who presumably aren’t from Libya — which was criticized for “harsh and life-threatening prison conditions” final 12 months by the U.S. State Department itself.

Trump’s feigned or intentional ignorance Wednesday is being trounced on social media.