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Whoopi Goldberg Panicked That No American Is Safe From Trump’s Deportations

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“The View” co-host Whoopi Goldberg warned Monday that no American is safe from being deported under President Donald Trump.

President Donald Trump’s administration deported over 200 of gang members part of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua and several members of MS-13 to El Salvador and Honduras on Saturday, which sparked backlash as a judge issued a last-minute order attempting to block the deportations. Goldberg warned that the Trump administration could randomly choose any American to be deported to a country they are not familiar with, though that would be a blatant violation of the U.S. Constitution.

“If they can just come up and take somebody because they’ve made a decision that you’re supposed to be that person, anyone of us could find ourselves being deported to some country we’ve never been,” Goldberg said. “Well you know, it is very clear to me that if we don’t continue to say, listen, I understand you want to clean out all the bad stuff, I get it. But why do you now have access to my personal information? I get the things you’re trying to do, I don’t get why you’re taking my stuff, not just me personally, but every single one of you and your constitutional right of free speech.”

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The 14th Amendment of the U.S. Constitution guarantees citizenship to all individuals born on U.S. soil, which cannot be revoked. Deportation can only apply to naturalized citizens whose citizenship status is revoked for attaining naturalization illegally or for violating specific immigration laws, though revoking the citizenship of such a person is extremely rare, according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.

Goldberg, who was born in New York, cannot be subject to deportation under any circumstance under the 14th Amendment.

U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg blocked the deportations in a Saturday ruling, though the planes were already en route to South America. The judge verbally ordered for the planes to be returned to the U.S., though it was not included in his written ruling.

The White House denied that they defied Boasberg’s order, with White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt saying Monday that that the planes were already outside of U.S. territory and thus the ruling could not be put into effect. Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act to deport members of Venezuela’s Tren de Agua gang, which allows presidents to deport non-citizens without them going in front of an immigration or federal court judge under certain circumstances.

El Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele confirmed that his nation received 238 members of Tren de Agua and 23 MS-13 members, two of whom were ringleaders. He openly mocked the federal judge’s order to stop the deportations by stating on X that it was “too late.”