Trump wants to apply the law of 1798 – judge blocks him

A federal judge blocked the quick deportation of Venezuelan members of the “Tren de Aragua” passage for 14 days. The so-called “Alien Enemies Act” from 1798, to which the US President refers to, has so far only been applied in times of war. He would have made it possible to bypass Donald Trump the rights of migrants that are classified as a threat and to quickly deport them.

Trump said the United States was faced with the “invasion” of a criminal organization that were connected to kidnapping, extortion, organized crimes and murders of order. Their members led “an irregular war and undertaking enemy actions against the United States” with the aim of destabilizing the country.

The US district judge James E. Boasberg said that he had to issue his decision immediately, since the government already had migrants, who were allegedly newly deployed after President Donald Trump’s proclamation, to be exhausted to El Salvador and Honduras in order to have them arrested there.

“I don’t think I can wait longer and am committed to act,” said Boasberg during a hearing on Saturday evening in a legal dispute that was strictly strictly strictly strictly exhausted by the ACLU and Democracy Forward. “A brief delay in its deportation does not harm the government,” he added, pointing out that all planes should reverse in the air, while they are still in state custody, as the news agency (AP) reports.

“Trump’s advance” is as legally as everything the Trump administration has done so far, “said Lee, Lee, Lee, lawyer of the American Civil Liberties Union, said in an interview with Reuters.

This week, El Salvador has already agreed to record up to 300 migrants, which the Trump government classified as gang members. The United States would pay six million dollars for this, reported on Saturday. In a paper of the Foreign Ministry of El Salvador, it is also said that the people should be accommodated for a year until the United States had decided on long -term accommodation.

In February, US Secretary of State Marco Rubio indicated that the El Salvador government had offered to record “dangerous criminals” in their prisons, which would be deported from the United States. Human rights activists reject this and refer to reports on torture and deaths in El Salvador’s prisons. President Nayib Bukele is hard against members of criminal gangs in the country.

The “Tren de Aragua” is blamed for an increase in crime in North and South America. In February, the United States classified it and other criminal groups in the region as global terrorist organizations. According to some experts, this could lead to migrants who pay human smugglers to be pursued under criminal law.

The “Alien Enemies Act” is primarily known for serving during the Second World War to justify internment camps for people of Japanese, German and Italian descent. Civil rights activists have criticized the idea of ​​reviving the law to enable mass deportations. The step should result in legal challenge.