The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is a wartime authority that allows a president to detain or deport citizens of an enemy nation, and has been invoked three times.
Now, Trump, who has promised supporters an aggressive drive to deport thousands of undocumented migrants, will attempt to use the law against Venezuelan drug gang Tren de Aragua.
“The result is a hybrid criminal state that is perpetrating an invasion of and predatory incursion into the United States,“ the presidential statement said.
The statement gives Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi 60 days to put the proclamation into effect, making all Tren de Aragua gang members “subject to immediate apprehension, detention, and removal.”
It was not immediately clear, however, whether the order will go into effect. Already on Saturday one US judge reportedly preemptively issued an injunction blocking five expulsions.
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