Judge blocks Trump from using wartime Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport immigrants
A federal judge on Saturday night temporarily blocked President Trump from ousting immigrants under wartime law The Alien Enemy Law of 1798 The president announced the enforcement of the law earlier that day.
The judge’s ruling was against five Venezuelans in Texas immigration guardians and five Venezuelan men and other executive officers in the local prisons of President Trump and other administration officials.
Mr. Trump earlier on Saturday invoked the 227-year-old wartime law.
The lawsuit filed in federal court with lawyers from the American Civil Liberties Union and Democracy Progressive Law states that the Alien Enemy Act is a “wartime measure, used only three times in the history of our nation: the War of 1812, World War I and World War II.”
The President has given extraordinary power 227 years of law Order the arrest, detention and deportation of non-citizens over 14 years of age, from the United States “invasion or predatory” countries
The U.S. District Court Chief Justice James E. Boothberg appealed the ruling, which held that the ruling had no power in the case because five people were in the area. Four were detained in Texas, one of them was detained in New York. They further believed that invoking the Alien Enemy Act was “speculation.”
“We are pleased that the judge recognizes that our plaintiffs will face serious harm,” said ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt. “The president’s use of the Alien Enemy Act is not legally required.”
Then, after an emergency hearing Saturday night, Boasberg expanded the orders to include “all non-citizens in U.S. detention”, which were acted by Mr. Trump invoked the Alien Enemy Act.
Boasberg also appears to indicate that any deported flight should be returned to the United States among immigrants currently under this order on board
The lawsuit noted that Mr. Trump “is expected to immediately remove non-citizens who declared to be foreign enemies without any opportunity for judicial review.”
“It also distorts the simple language of the act: the arrival of Venezuelan non-citizens is seen as an ‘invasion’ or a “predatory invasion’ of ‘foreign or government’, and the Venezuelan gang (Venezuelan gang) is considered to be similar enough to a foreign or government.”
The lawsuit says the government can identify any Venezuelans in the United States as members of the gang, regardless of the facts, and attempt to expel them.
In civil lawsuits, the people also argued that the Alien Enemy Act “only powers cited during the war and only applies to war measures: here cannot be fought against a nation’s national (Venezuela) – Venezuela – There is no war with the United States, which is not invading the United States, and it does not initiate predatory American violations.”
The next hearing in the case is scheduled to take place on March 21.
Contributed to this report.
