Posted on 04/09/2025 1:44:31 AM PDT by RandFan
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) filed a suit on behalf of two Venezuelan migrants who expect to be deported under the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) and face possible removal to a Salvadoran prison.
The suit is the first in the wake of a Supreme Court decision lifting a temporary restraining order from a lower court that had blocked the Trump administration from using the law to deport people.
President Trump signed a proclamation on March 14 igniting the wartime powers that have only been used three other times in U.S. history. It’s the first time the law has been used to target gang members, and shortly after signing the order the Trump administration sent more than 100 Venezuelans to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, known by its Spanish acronym CECOT.
“The AEA has only ever been a power invoked in time of war, and plainly only applies to warlike actions: it cannot be used here against nationals of a country — Venezuela — with whom the United States is not at war, which is not invading the United States, and which has not launched a predatory incursion into the United States,” the ACLU wrote in the suit filed in New York.
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
“not launched a predatory incursion”
Oh yeah no predatory incursion to see here, move along.
Is the ACLU still getting Federal government funding?
Someone posted here it WAS an incursion and deliberate
ACLU.....ANTI CHRISTIANS LOVE US!!!
The most commie unAmerican bunch of assholes in the USA. IMO
I disagree. Now get the passenger list of the illegal aliens Brandon flew in.
Flooding USA with thousands and thousands of illegal aliens is an act of war. Returning them home to Caracas is not punishment. It is merely restoring justice and defending our border/. Sovereignty
ACLU = American Communist Lovers Association …….. they hate America!
defund the ACLU communist anti American activism we dont need
Now get the passenger list of the illegal aliens Brandon flew in.
That will be one of their arguments: they were brought here...
And we know he Bidens wouldn’t do anything illegal.
How’s them paintings selling now Hunter?
Oh, agreed...
1. These people entered the US without permission, and are staying here illegally. So stop with the Alien Enemies Act BS, and throw the bums out.
2. The Supreme Court has already answered this legal question:
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WASHINGTON, April 7 (Reuters) - The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed Donald Trump to pursue deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members using a 1798 law that historically has been employed only in wartime as part of the Republican president’s hardline approach to immigration, but with certain limits.
The court, in an unsigned 5-4 ruling powered by conservative justices, granted the administration’s request to lift Washington-based U.S. Judge James Boasberg’s March 15 order that had temporarily blocked the summary deportations under Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act while litigation in the case continues....
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WTAF! These people are not USA citizens hence they have no standing in a USA court. The only ‘rights’ they have are to not be shot on sight. Round ‘em up and give them the choice of a plane trip to San Salvador or a bus ride to Mexico. If they return and are caught again turn them into Soylent Green.
All lies, the Act doe snot limit itself to only actions under a declared war.
Also this is the very definition of Judicial activism as judge Bonehead asked the ACLU from the bench to file this.
“I disagree. Now get the passenger list of the illegal aliens Brandon flew in.”
Any times under the cover of darkness and dumped them in small cities all over America or loaded them on commercial airplanes WITH NO IDENTIFICATION - meanwhile, Americans are still being strip-searched by TSA or denied boarding if their names on their ticket don’t exactly match their driver license.
Wherever JB is, I hope he has a bleeding diaper rash from being discarded to some basement, forgotten and frightened.
“...igniting the wartime powers...”
Nothing incendiary in that bit of molotov journalism.
And, what happened to the SCOTUS decision, months back, that defined the scope of Presidential Immunity for acts taken while in office?
Then maybe they should change their name to the AECLU. Or, perhaps they should get A CLUE.
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