where is Chief Justice Roberts ? the world wonders. .
Posted on 03/27/2025 7:15:55 AM PDT by george76
Judge Boasberg blocks Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua, despite intelligence linking the gang to Venezuela’s government and acts of sabotage in the U.S.
As President Trump fulfills his campaign promise to deport criminal illegal aliens, a blatantly corrupt judge is trying to stop him. Judge James Boasberg, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, has abandoned all pretense to fairness. I will leave it to others to focus on his conflicts of interest (the FISA Court, his wife, his daughter) and his double standard of justice.
This article is based on an intelligence briefing and refutes Boasberg’s central argument—that it is inappropriate for President Trump to apply the Alien Enemies Act against Tren de Aragua (TdA). Boasberg said TdA is not a foreign government against whom the United States has declared war. But that is a deliberate misreading of the text of the law. The law is quite simple. Here it is, in its entirety:
Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President of the United States shall make public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies. [Emphasis added]
The law states clearly that the predicates for invoking the Act include “any invasion or predatory incursion attempted … by any foreign nation or government” and that “the President shall make public declaration of the event.” Are those conditions met?
The president made the required declaration. On March 15, he issued the official proclamation: “I find and declare that TdA is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States. TdA is undertaking hostile actions and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States both directly and at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela.”
But does the situation meet the other criteria? Is the criminal gang activity of Tren de Aragua “perpetrated, attempted, or threatened by a foreign nation or government?”
An extraordinary article last week by Miami Herald investigative reporter Antonio Maria Delgado provides clear answers. Delgado interviewed a team of high-level investigators and analysts who have been following the Venezuelan regime for over ten years. The only team member to speak on the record is Gary Berntsen, among the most highly decorated CIA veterans in recent history. I spoke with Berntsen after the article was published. He confirmed that Tren de Aragua was purposely sent to the United States to destabilize our country.
Antonio Delgado quoted Berntsen: “The Venezuelan regime has assumed operational control of these guys [Tren de Aragua] and has trained 300 of them; they have given them paramilitary training, training them to fire weapons and how to conduct sabotage. They have given them all like a four- to six-week course. They put these 300 guys through that course, and then they were deploying them into the United States to 20 separate states.”
Berntsen confirmed those details to me and expanded on them. “Remember, sabotage includes arson,” he said. “Many of these wildfires, industrial fires, the Los Angeles fires, taking advantage of wind and the local conditions, were started by arsonists. How many of them were paid or coerced by TdA or their surrogates?”
Berntsen is coming forward now because two CIA officials leaked false intelligence to the New York Times recently, claiming the agency has no intelligence connecting TdA with the Venezuelan government. But Berntsen showed me proof of the close relationships among Tren de Aragua, the Venezuelan military and intelligence apparatus, Cuban intelligence, and the worst of the Latin American narcoterrorists. He has shared not only the intelligence but also the sources with elements of the U.S. government.
“The CIA doesn’t have the information because they refused to look at it,” Berntsen said. “We tried to brief them about this three years ago, but they were directed by the Biden Administration to ignore it. And now those officials are trying to undermine President Trump.”
President Trump pointed out the tight relationship in his declaration.
“Tren de Aragua … operates in conjunction with Cártel de los Soles, the Nicolas Maduro regime-sponsored, narco-terrorism enterprise based in Venezuela, and commits brutal crimes, including murders, kidnappings, extortions, and human, drug, and weapons trafficking.”
Tren de Aragua is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO) that operates under the direction of a foreign government in conjunction with other FTOs. It is funded and assisted by narcotraffickers and Mexican drug cartels. It has entered the U.S. clandestinely with the express goal of undermining and destabilizing our country and attacking our citizens. It is set on sabotage, including arson, and is probably responsible for over $300 billion in fire damage in the past year alone.
Review the record:
Predatory? Yes.
Incursion? Yes.
Invasion? Yes. A light brigade-sized force of military-aged men entered our country without permission.
Perpetrated by a foreign nation or government? Yes. TdA was trained, directed, assisted, and funded by the government of Venezuela and its criminal allies, who have more firepower than the military forces of several nations.
Judge Boasberg has no cause to reject President Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. President Trump has followed the requirements of the law to the letter. The law applies to many other criminal illegal aliens. President Trump is right to stand firm and protect America and the American people.
Remember, they shot Trump once and tried a second time.
Boasberg is a key leader in conspiracy to cripple and overturn the duly elected president and government.
Detailed, pertinent & concise. In a word “yes” President Trump is 100% correct in utilizing this act.
Boasberg wants to be a King ?
Judge Boasberg has no authority to dictate national security nor immigration policy. His conflicts of interest should also disqualify him from any of the Trump cases. The Supreme Court could end this with ample precedent of previous SCOTUS decisions that clearly state District Courts do not have authority in immigration policy. Chief Justice Roberts reds to act.
If congress doesn’t act, President Trump will be forced to declare a National Emergency to get the illegals out, jeopardizing the mid term elections for republicans.
No faith at all in SCOTUS.
This is judicial tyranny, we are a Representative Republic, not a kritarchy - a system where judges hold the highest authority, not the president, not the Constitution.
Judge Boasberg should be on the next transport to the prison in El Salvador with his beloved violent gang members.
The mere "threat of a predatory incursion" will satisfy the requirement for the President. The left-wing-nut judges do not participate in any "advice and consent" authority, though the judges like to imagine their power.
where is Chief Justice Roberts ? the world wonders. .
§1229a. Removal proceedings
(a) Proceeding
(1) In general
An immigration judge shall conduct proceedings for deciding the inadmissibility or deportability of an alien.
(2) Charges
An alien placed in proceedings under this section may be charged with any applicable ground of inadmissibility under section 1182(a) of this title or any applicable ground of deportability under section 1227(a) of this title.
(3) Exclusive procedures
Unless otherwise specified in this chapter, a proceeding under this section shall be the sole and exclusive procedure for determining whether an alien may be admitted to the United States or, if the alien has been so admitted, removed from the United States. Nothing in this section shall affect proceedings conducted pursuant to section 1228 of this title
....
(4) Alien’s rights in proceeding
In proceedings under this section, under regulations of the Attorney General-
(A) the alien shall have the privilege of being represented, at no expense to the Government, by counsel of the alien’s choosing who is authorized to practice in such proceedings,
(B) the alien shall have a reasonable opportunity to examine the evidence against the alien, to present evidence on the alien’s own behalf, and to cross-examine witnesses presented by the Government but these rights shall not entitle the alien to examine such national security information as the Government may proffer in opposition to the alien’s admission to the United States or to an application by the alien for discretionary relief under this chapter, and
....
(3) Burden on service in cases of deportable aliens
(A) In general
In the proceeding the Service has the burden of establishing by clear and convincing evidence that, in the case of an alien who has been admitted to the United States, the alien is deportable. No decision on deportability shall be valid unless it is based upon reasonable, substantial, and probative evidence.
(B) Proof of convictions
In any proceeding under this chapter, any of the following documents or records (or a certified copy of such an official document or record) shall constitute proof of a criminal conviction:
(i) An official record of judgment and conviction.
(ii) An official record of plea, verdict, and sentence
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Note (3)
I would love to see him in an orange jump suit .
There are three “or” stipulations in this law that do not require a state of war for this law to be put to use.
These “or” stipulations are determined by the commander in chief, the executive branch under the Constitution Article II.
Alien Enemies Act: Any or more than one of the three “or” qualifiers that are NOT with regards to being in a state of war:
“...or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States”
The word “OR” means any, single one qualification or specification permits invocation of the act. Maybe two at once or maybe even three at once but all there needs to be is one..
People just refuse to comprehend words, phrases or language composition.
Woodpusher and ultrasonic007, please read this, carefully. Think about what you said. Your premises are false. This IS war, meant not to look like one so as to perpetuate it. Trump's response does meet the standards of this Statute.
Got it now?
Excellent article!
Gives solid proof that Venezuela is fostering and funding a terrorist group—TdA- -that is acting as an ENEMY of our country!
Trendy arugala needs to go!
Congress needs to give Trump better legal tools.
Any alien who is not a net 1040 taxpayer or a declared dependent of one should be removable upon the personal request of the Attorney General.
It’s not like foreigners who want to be in the USA are in short supply.
Obviously, the problem begins once we start the hearing process, even an administrative hearing, the process gets constipated and it will be impossible to remove any significant portion of the millions of illegals.
Granted, there are ways that these administrative hearings can be expedited, even ways that appeals of those hearings might be conducted after the alien is deported.
But my question remains, does the illegal aliens still get a due process hearing if only to determine that he is in fact illegal?
How do we know that the Aurora gente are part of TdA?
They could simply be copycats.
TDA has been sent here by the Chicoms using Venezuela as a proxy.
Destabilization to foment Communist revolution is the goal.
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