On Saturday, a federal judge prevented President Donald Trump temporarily to use the 1798 foreign enemies’ law to deport members of suspects in the Venezuelan gang, which he accused of “infiltrating illegal” in the country. He also ordered any deportations to carry those who are under the presidential advertisement to return to the United States.
On Saturday, Trump evoked the war of war that is rarely used, accusing the Venezuelan Gang, Treen de Aragua of the Venezuelan President “infiltrated” Nicholas Maduro, including “his military and law enforcement”; Adam “irregular war” within the United States and the use of drug trafficking as a weapon against American citizens.
Hours before the White House published Trump’s announcement, the US Civil Liberties Union and Democrat litigate The White House was accused of preparing for the deportation of five Venezuelan men under the law of foreign enemies.
The chief judge in the Capital Provincial Court, James E.
Boasberg has now expanded the decision to apply for “all non -citizens in the American nursery” who are under the Trump advertisement.
Ministry of Justice The decision appealed Saturday night.
The ruling means that all 14 -year -old Venezuelan citizens are members of Tren de Aragua, currently in the country and not permanent or legal residents in the United States will remain in the United States for 14 days or even another court.
The judge said: “Any plane containing these people will start, or in the air, should return to the United States,” the judge said. “These people need to return to the United States.”
The judge’s ruling does not apply to individuals who have already been ordered to leave the country for separate reasons for Trump’s summons to the law of foreign enemies, nor does it include individuals who have already landed and exploded in a foreign country. The judge said, as soon as these individuals are outside the plane and on the ground in a foreign country, who are not in the jurisdiction of the court.
The judge set another hearing on Friday, March 21st, for more arguments.
“Today was a horrific day in the history of the nation, when the president published that he was seeking to summon the unusual warlords of war in the absence of war or invasion and demanded almost unlimited power to remove people from the country,” said Sky Berman, the head of democracy forward, in a statement. “But tonight prevailed in the rule of law. The government was forced to turn the planes, and a lawsuit – submitted in the early hours of this morning – led to a wide relief.”
During a hearing on Saturday afternoon, the lawyers of the Ministry of Justice confirmed to the judge that the five Venezuelan ordered the survival in the country not currently on deportation trips.
Lawyers of the non -profit groups that challenged Trump’s matter told the judge that they were familiar with the trips that started from Texas with other Venezuelans on board, heading to Honduras and El Salvador.
The judge warned the government that it should comply with the court’s order.
“This is something you need to make sure to comply with him immediately,” said Boasberg. “These people will be sent to Salvadorian and Honduran prisons, which will not be terrible to Venezuelan.”
A source familiar with the migrant deportations told NBC News that two flights with the Venezuelan on board were in the crossing today and will be operated after the judge’s order.
The 1798 foreign enemies law enables the president to take migrants and deport them quickly from a “hostile” nation, either during the times of “declared war” or when the foreign government perpetuates a “invasion” or “a predatory incursion” in the United States. Only Congress has the constitutional power to declare war.
Over the years, the Venezuelan national and local authorities have left the growing control of their territory for criminal organizations, including TDA [Tren De Aragua]”The Trump advertisement reads.” The result is a hybrid criminal state that commits an invasion of predators in the United States, which pose a great danger to the United States. ”
Legal experts have challenged Trump’s interpretation of the law of foreign enemies, on the pretext that it was only designed to use it in times of war, and his summons to deport migrants may be illegal.
“Illegal immigration and transgressing drugs across the border do not qualify as” invasion “and certainly not an invasion by a nation or an enemy government.”
According to Law analysis By the Brennan Center for Justice, “the law of foreign enemies allows anxiety, restrictions, insurance and removing non -citizens. It also gives the president explicitly the ability to determine when and how to do so.”
Foreign Minister Marco Rubio Last month, the appointed Tree de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization after Trump signed an executive order creates an operation for him to do so.
Trump in order accusationMr. Dr Group From engaging in a “campaign of violence and terrorism” and floods “the United States with deadly drugs, violent criminals, and evil gangs.” In the same order, Trump directed federal officials to “conduct operational preparations” in order to “implement” the law of foreign enemies.
Trump summoned the law of foreign enemies It fulfills a pledge He was based on the campaign’s path to use the law to target suspected gang members, drug dealers and kartel.
“I will immediately call on the law of foreign enemies to remove all the members of the well -known or suspects, drug dealers, and Kartel members from the United States, and they end the lesion of illegal foreign gangs once,” Trump said in a speech in the 2023 campaign in Dopok. Iowa.
Trump is the first president in nearly a century To summon the law of foreign enemies, and the first to do this outside a major military conflict. It was last called in 1941 by President Franklin Dylano Roosevelt, who used the law to target Japanese, German and Italian people during World War II, the United States Law I apologize since then to.
Democratic lawmakers have tried for years to abolish the law of foreign enemies, with Representative Ilhan Omar, De Ain, and the Senator Mazi Herono, De Hawaii, Providing legislation in January To do this.
“We cannot allow old laws to continue to enable discriminatory practices that harm migrant societies,” Omar said in a statement for the month of January.
