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“Only someone as grotesquely amoral and mindless as he is would even think of saying something like that,” wrote one user on social media.
He said a farmer told him that migrants don't get "bad backs," because "if they get a bad back, they die.”
The South Carolina Republican shared a social media post Tuesday that users are calling "disturbed," "vile" and "grotesque."
The court has also allowed the administration to revoke temporary legal status from about 350,000 Venezuelan migrants in another case.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
The emergency appeal to the court came the same day a federal judge in Texas ruled illegal the administration's efforts to deport Venezuelans under an 18th-century wartime law.
The emergency appeal to the high court follows a rejection of the Republican administration’s plea to the federal appeals court in Washington.
Trump's distancing from his proclamation comes less than a week after he claimed that his predecessor Joe Biden used an autopen.
Trump is locked in a battle with Judge James Boasberg after he temporarily blocked the administration from deporting migrants under an 18th-century law.
U.S. District Judge James Boasberg was also confirmed 96-0 by the Senate and was first nominated by former President George W. Bush.
At least two employees have been indicted on criminal charges related to the allegations since 2020.