The Alien Enemies Act

This message comes from Progressive Insurance and the name your price tool. It helps you find car insurance options in your budget. Try it today at progressive.com. Progressive Casualty Insurance Company and affiliates. Price and coverage match limited by state law. Not available in all states. At 05:45PM eastern time on Saturday, 03/15/2025, a plane took off from Harlingen, Texas. As that plane flew south, turning towards Honduras, news alerts went off in The United States. President Trump invoked a wartime law that gives him sweeping deportation powers. It's called the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. It gives presidents power to order the rapid detention and deportation of noncitizens older than 14. It is clear The US is not in a war right now. But in his order, Trump described Venezuela's Tringaragua prison gang as a force invading The US. Many view this move as an attempt by the Trump administration to accelerate deportations. I think an old law is a virtue, not a vice. The ACLU sued to stop these deportations, and a federal judge, agreed to temporarily block them. Despite this, a plane landed in El Salvador carrying hundreds of deportees from The United States. It's unclear if the deportations violated a judicial order. President Trump asked the Supreme Court to intervene. He wanted the injunction, which a federal judge put on his ability to use the Alien Enemies Act, to be lifted. The Supreme Court ended up issuing a narrow procedural ruling, lifting the order, saying the migrants should have filed their cases in the states where the migrants were being detained and not in Washington DC. But the justices avoided answering the question of whether or not Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act was constitutional. And that's the law at the heart of this story. The Alien Enemies Act allows presidents to detain or deport citizens of foreign adversaries to The United States, but only if a declared war or invasion of The US has taken place. The Trump administration, including Tom Homan, the president's border czar, is arguing that the 137 Venezuelans it deported using the Alien Enemies Act were, in a sense, invading The United States as alleged members of the gang, Tren de Aragua or TDA. TDA is the enemy in this country. We know TDA based on a lot of evidence, are are part of the Maduro regime Maduro regime through the military and law enforcement. They've infiltrated them. And look, they've they've invaded this country to unsettle this country to whether it's fentanyl killing thousand of Americans or through the violence they're perpetrating our cities. President did the right thing. I stand by it. But at least 27 of the men the Trump administration deported without a trial did not have deportation orders against them. An ICE official has conceded that, quote, many did not have criminal records. And court filings showing the criteria Department of Homeland Security officers used to identify the alleged gang members indicate that they relied …