Kondor3
Cafeteria Centrist
Hey... could'a been worse... we could'a taken 'em outside of town to a ditch and put a bullet in the back of each head...Trump invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport those people to El Salvador. The problem with this is that the Act didn't cover this situation.
The Alien Enemies Act: What to know about a 1798 law that Trump has invoked for deportations
What is the Alien Enemies Act?
In 1798, with the U.S. preparing for what it believed would be a war with France, Congress passed a series of laws that increased the federal government's reach. The Alien Enemies Act was created to give the president wide powers to imprison and deport noncitizens in time of war.
Since then, the act has been used just three times: during the War of 1812, World War I and World War II.
It was part of the World War II legal rationale for mass internments in the U.S. of people of German, Italian and especially Japanese ancestry. An estimated 120,000 people with Japanese heritage, including those with U.S. citizenship, were incarcerated.
We are not at war with Venezuela. Therefore Trump had no right to do this.
The Chinese Communist Party does that all the time... kissing cousins to the Leftmost echelon of the Democratic Party...
Moving on...
What a beautiful sight we were treated to in recent days...


As to the actual deportation question...
Go back and re-read the Alien Enemies Act...
"...or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event..."
https://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?path=/prelim@title50/chapter3&edition=prelim
The President issued the public proclamation after formally and legally linking the gang to the Venezuelan government.
The approach taken was that of "invasion" or "predatory incursion"... if one doesn't work, the other will.
Personally I see the latter (predatory incursion) as the easier of the two to defend in the law courts, but that's just me.
And the Law doesn't even require an actual event... merely the THREAT of one... and POTUS gets to make that "call"...
No...the Administration had it's I's dotted and their T's crossed before they did this one...

The legal conditions for the action were addressed and satisfied in advance of the action actually being executed.
Besides... those gang-members were here illegally... which makes their disposal all-the-more desirable to most Americans.
They figured-out a way to blow past you-and-yours in such matters so that they were unassailable in the law courts...
A welcome and long-overdue and happy development...
Next slide, please.

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