Alien Enemies Act: Deportation, Due Process & Trump Era Immigration
Court limits Alien Enemies Act use in deportations, citing due process. Trump admin deported Venezuelans without records. Focus on 'Tren de Aragua' gang's alleged US intrusion.
Q&A on the Alien Enemies Act and Tren de Aragua in the U.S.
The American Civil Liberties Union and Democracy Forward had filed a lawsuit on the same day of the deportations on behalf of five Venezuelan men who were being held in Texas and “threatened with imminent removal under the President’s expected Proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act.” The suit sought class action status for all affected immigrants and asked the judge to block the administration’s use of the act.
Can Trump use a 1798 law for mass deportations?
At an Oct. 11 campaign rally in Aurora, Colorado, he said he’d invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to expedite gang members’ removal and to "target and dismantle every migrant criminal network operating on American soil."