Alien Enemies Act, Trump
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President Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants suspected of being members of the Tren de Aragua gang quickly kicked off a legal battle.
The New York Times |
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Friday to allow it to use a rarely invoked wartime law to continue to deport Venezuelans with little to no due process.
Yahoo |
Assuming the administration abides by the ruling, it should at least slow down the mass deportations, which are now beginning to target legal immigrants who have had their visas revoked.
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The Trump administration has asked the Supreme Court to lift a District Court judge's order blocking the use of an obscure 18th century law to summarily expel Venezuelan immigrants. Earlier this month,
Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act against Tren de Aragua members. A federal judge later ordered the administration to turn around any planes that had already taken off.
It’s not clear exactly when Trump signed the Alien Enemies Act proclamation. The proclamation stated that it was signed on March 14; an ICE officer testified that it was first posted on the White House website at 3:53 p.m. ET on March 15.
President Trump on Friday deflected when asked if he signed the order to invoke the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, to deport Venezuelan migrants allegedly linked to the Tren de
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt also slammed U.S. District Judge James Boasberg as a "Democrat activist" after he halted deportation flights to El Salvador.
Correction: A graphic at the end of the segment suggested that U.S. citizens of Japanese descent were incarcerated during World War II under the Alien Enemies Act. In fact, the Alien Enemies Act ...
The White House’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to remove Venezuelans it has accused of being gang members is an abuse of war powers that critics say could open the door to mass deportations from a
U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg won’t lift his earlier ban on the deportation of immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, denying a Trump administration request and ruling it likely violated the due process rights of migrants who were deported to El Salvador.
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