#Trump has issued an #ExecutiveOrder invoking the #AlienEnemiesAct of 1798, an obscure 227 year old #law that allows the removal of unauthorized immigrants with little #DueProcess. Trump’s order says that Venezuelans who are 14 years & older, in the United States without authorization & part of the Tren de Aragua gang [or that the admin says are part of the gang] are “liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured & removed.”
#immigration #Venezuela #geopolitics #USpol
https://www.reuters.com/legal/us-judge-blocks-some-deportations-after-lawsuit-cites-fears-wartime-law-2025-03-15/
In invoking the #law, #Trump claimed the #US was facing an "invasion" from a criminal organization that has been linked to kidnapping, extortion, organized crime & contract killings.
Furthermore, Trump claimed members of the gang were "conducting irregular warfare & undertaking hostile actions against the #UnitedStates" with the goal of destabilizing the country.
@Nonilex
Yes, well someone certainly is "conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States (Consistitution)".
Thank you, #JusticeRoberts'' #SCOTUS - for your diligence in establishing that the President can do whatever he wants as an official act. You have condemned many to death by your ruling. Pity none of them have committed any crime, or been charged in any court.
@PaulWermer You're getting the Supreme Court ruling backwards.
It absolutely did not say that the president can do whatever he wants as an official act. What it said was that a president cannot prosecute a former president for something that was legal on the grounds of it being a lawful, official action.
