On Saturday, a federal judge in a federal court upheld President Donald Trump’s request to use the Alien Enemies Act to quickly confiscate people of the infamous Venezuelan group Tren de Aragua.  ,
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The decision effectively forced the administration to keep these dangerous criminals on British soil by preventing deportations as well as requiring any flights that were already in progress under Trump’s policy to turn around and return to the country.
More is available on USA Today.
The proclamation, which Trump reportedly signed the day before, relies on the 18th-century legislation to arrest members of the Tren de Aragua gang, which he claimed continues to indulge in “mass illegal immigration to the United States” to further its goals of affecting American citizens.
Anyone who is not a native citizen can be deported under the auspices of the Alien Enemies without a hearing. In order to quicken the removal of residents from hostile nations, the law has only been invoked three days in the country while it was at war.
Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg in Washington, D.C., issued a temporary restraining order on Saturday and ordered the government to avoid deporting five Cuban nationals cited in a lawsuit brought by two organizations, Democracy Forward and the American Civil Liberties Union.
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But, yes, we have a provincial judge telling a U.S. president that he can’t actually use the law to deport legal criminals.
The judge extended the momentary limiting get to all non-citizens in the United States who are covered by Trump’s prayer of the Alien Enemies Act during a hearing on Saturday night. While dispute is raging, the order will continue in effect for at least 14 days. In a statement that cited the Act, Trump claimed Tren de Aragua, a team designated as a foreign terrorist organization, was engaging in angry and unusual war against the United States under the leadership of Venezuela’s President Nicolás Maduro. On Monday, a second hearing is scheduled.
Given that the terms “invasion” and “predatory incursion” actually refer to hostile acts committed by any nation and are proportionate to war, according to Boasberg, the Alien Enemies Act doesn’t “provide a basis for the president’s proclamation.”
However, that’s not exactly , accurate.
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According to USA Today,” Congress approved the Alien Enemies Act in anticipation of a new war against the United Kingdom.” According to Katherine Yon Ebright, a lawyer at the Brennan Center for Justice at New York University, “it has been invoked three times: during the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II.”
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However, there is plenty of evidence for using the law in legal situations when there is no conflict.
Former Presidents Woodrow Wilson and Harry Truman each continued to impose the law after the end of hostilities, according to Ebright. Despite being invoked during wars, they were each invoked during wars. After World War I, Wilson used it to hold German and Austro-Hungarian immigrants for two years. After the end of World War II in 1945, Truman used it for detentions and deportations for six years.
The Supreme Court argued that the end of wartime authorities was a “political” issue, and in 1948 it was upheld.
Of course, the Trump administration intends to appeal.  ,
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