Judge Blocks Trump’s Efforts to Deport Gang Members Under 1798 Alien Enemies Act

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The ACLU and Democracy Forward filed a lawsuit challenging Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to speed along deportations of Venezuelan nationals.

A federal judge has blocked President Donald Trump’s efforts to rapidly deport members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua through use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

On Saturday, Trump issued a presidential proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act specifically to speed along the deportations of all Venezuelan nationals who are 14 years old or older, who are members of Tren de Aragua, and who are not citizens or lawful permanent residents of the United States.

Hours before Trump issued his proclamation, lawyers for five Venezuelan detainees being processed for deportation from the United States filed a lawsuit seeking to stop the president’s deportation practice. In response, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg, of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, issued an order barring the deportation of those five plaintiffs identified in the lawsuit for at least the next two weeks, as the legal proceedings continue.

Later on Saturday evening, Boasberg returned with a second order, granting a class action certification to all noncitizens who would otherwise be subject to Trump’s presidential proclamation.

The complaint, filed with support from the ACLU and Democracy Forward, challenges the legality of Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. In particular, the lawsuit notes the 1798 law has only ever been invoked on three prior occasions: during the War of 1812, World War I, and World War II.

The plaintiffs asserted the Alien Enemies Act “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 complaint reads.

Trump’s proclamation says the Venezuelan government has gradually ceded more and more of its authorities to terrorist group Tren de Aragua and other similar transnational criminal organizations, resulting in what the proclamation referred to as a “hybrid criminal state.”

By Ryan Morgan

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