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Presidency Press SecretHor / Brochure via ReutersMore than 200 Venezuelac, which are white home allegations members of the gang, are deported from the US on the infamous Mega-prison in El Salvador.
Of the 261 people deported, 137 were removed in the Law on Alien Enemies, the Senior Administration Officer told the news for CBS, BBC’s American partner.
This wide, antique law called on President Donald Trump. He accused Venezuelan Banga tren de Aragua (TDA) “committed, trying to threaten the invasion or predator” on American territory.
The lower court temporarily blocked these deportations 15. March, the verdict that the administration proceedings under the law need further supervision. But in the amount of 5-4 decisions 7. April, the Supreme Court raised that block, and lying down with Trump, and at the same time by hoping procedural protective measures.
What is the act?
Alien enemies operate the United States President who invented the powers to order custody and deportation of the natives or citizens of the “enemy” nation without any common processes.
As part of the Surom Surad, 1798. years when they were now believed to enter the war with France.
The law states that “whenever the war is declared (…) or any invasion or predator” against the United States “, all” subjects of the enemy “caught, restrained, insured and removed, as alien enemies.”
When is it still used?
The law was previously used only three times – all during the conflict involving the United States.
The last was invited in World War II, when people from Japanese origin – allegedly counting about 120,000 – closed without a trial. Thousands were sent to camps for internalances.
People of German and Italian origin are also interned during that time.
Prior to that, the act was used during the war from 1812. and the world’s first war.
What did Trump say – and what was the reaction?
Although this is the first time the act used by Trump, it is not the first time he mentioned him.
On his inaugural address in January, he said he would invite the act of “eliminating the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks that bring destructive crimes on the ground”.
In his proclamation on Saturday, Trump called on the formulation of the law accusing TDA threatening “invasion” against the United States. He declared his members “subject to arrest, restrained, insured and removed as extraterrestrial enemies.”
The Trump Decision was criticized for law groups. American union civil liberty (ACLU) sued to stop the removal on the ground that they are not in war now.
Speaking of the BBC news on Sunday, Lee Gelern, a lawyer with ACLU, said: “There is no doubt in mind that the law violates.”
The Federal Judge James Boasberg tried to stop using the law to perform deportations, but the White House said it was “without a legal basis”, and that they were removed.
This led back between the Federal Court, located in Washington and the Government. Boasberg rejected the government’s response to his order as “Woely insufficient” and warned of the consequences if he broke his judgment.
Donald Trump returned to social media, saying Boasberg should be kicked out and called him “grandchildren.”
Responding to a newspaper article that covers the original account of the judge, President El Salvadodor Nayib Bukele wrote on social media: “oopsie … too late.”
Venezuela criticized Trump’s use of the law, saying “unfairly criminalizes Venezuelan migration” and “evokes the darkest episodes in humanity history, from slavery to horror concentration camps.”
Katherine Yon Ebright, defense attorney at the Brennan Justice Center, said in a statement that the use of extremes of extraterrestrial enemies is illegal.
“The only reason for making such power is an attempt to delete the detention and deportation of Venezuelan based on their ancestors, not a gang activity that could be proven in the immigration procedure,” she added.
2025-04-08 02:18:00
