Judge blocks Trump from using wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport immigrants [View all]

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Source: CBS

A federal judge on Saturday night temporarily blocked President Trump from removing immigrants under a wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 after the president announced earlier in the day that he would enforce the law. Despite the ruling, 261 people were deported to El Salvador on Saturday, 137 of whom were removed under the Alien Enemies Act over alleged gang ties, a senior administration official said.

The White House and Justice Department have said they had already been removed from the country when the judge made his ruling.

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In a new filing late on Sunday, the plaintiffs in the case accused the Trump administration of violating the judge's order, alleging that the court had made it clear any planes in the air at the time the order was issued should return to the U.S. In the motion filed overnight, the plaintiffs requested "that the Court immediately direct the government to submit one or more sworn declarations from individuals with direct knowledge of the facts clarifying" the timing of the flights carrying the individuals to Ecuador in relation to the issuance of the court's order.

Presidents are given the extraordinary power by the 227-year-old Alien Enemies Act to order the arrest, detention and deportation of noncitizens who are 14 years or older and come from countries staging an "invasion or predatory incursion" of the U.S.

James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the District Court for the U.S. District of Columbia, on Saturday implemented a temporary restraining order preventing their deportations for 14 days. The Justice Department appealed that decision, arguing the D.C. court has no authority over the case because none of the five men are in the district. Four are being held in detention in Texas and one in New York. They further argued that invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is "speculation."




Read more: https://www.cbsnews.com/news/venezuelan-immigrants-sue-trump-over-order-invoking-wartime-alien-enemies-act-of-1798/

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I am sure the DoJ will make sure the court’s orders are enforced.

Court: It is illegal to do what you are doing.

The Krasnov White House: We already did it.