Posted on 03/13/2025 2:15:10 PM PDT by bitt
President Donald J. Trump is reportedly about to invoke wartime legislation to summarily deport some criminal migrants – including to Guantanamo Bay.
The ‘Alien Enemies Act’ of 1798 is expected to be activated as soon as tomorrow (14).
CBS News reported:
“The 227-year-old law gives presidents the extraordinary power 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.
Mr. Trump is expected to cite the 18th-century statute to order the swift detention and deportation of suspected members of the Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan gang with prison origins that his administration has designated a foreign terrorist organization, said the sources, who requested anonymity to discuss internal deliberations.“
Officials are reported to have made preparations to send dangerous gang members to the U.S. Naval Base at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.
The move is expected to come just as soon as the President invokes the Alien Enemies Act.
“Those subject to the Alien Enemies Act would not be allowed to have a court hearing or an asylum interview since they would be processed under an emergency, wartime authority — not immigration law. Instead, they would be eligible to be detained and deported, with little to no due process, under Title 50, the section of the U.S. code housing America’s war and defense laws.”
The ‘Alien Enemies Act’ has only been used a few times in US history, including during World War II.
The Eisenhower government used it to surveil and detain nationals from Italy, Germany and Japan.
The invocation of the act targeting migrants from countries that the US is not actively at war with will most likely face legal challenges.
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The Eisenhower government used it to surveil and detain nationals from Italy, Germany and Japan.
So Eisenhower used it to spy on our new allies in the 1950s? Or is this some alternate universe where we lost the Battle of the Bulge, got bogged down in Europe and Eisenhower took over the US?
3,2,1...A Federal judge in California will declare it unenforceable and it will go into the appeals process and be resolved sometime around 2028...
‘The Eisenhower government’ ???
I dont think so
Try FDR
It was FDR
It was FDR. Yet another Gateway Pundit fail.
I fully support this but I am at a loss how this can be invoked, the act clearly states a sunset of 2 years after it was passed.
Any legal scholars care to educate me how such a law can be invoked?
OK neverminded, a rereading of the act I found that the section “An Act Respecting Alien Enemies” does not have an expiration.
Which judge will inject himself into the process?
Everything old is new again!
What countries is it covering?
I believe that Greenland is nice at this time of year.
we are up to 5 D CHESS, people.
can it be used against enemy judges? lots of those.
Agreed. About time!
The GWOT is ongoing.
My first thought, too. Probably wishful thinking on my part.
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