Trump invokes 1798 Alien Enemies Act to expedite gang deportations

President Donald Trump has invoked the Alien Enemies Act in order to help America deal with its violent crime problem.

Trump's recent presidential action, titled “Invocation of the Alien Enemies Act Regarding the Invasion of The United States by Tren De Aragua,” will expedite the removal of migrants who are “suspected of being” members of violent Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, (TdA.)

In the action taken, the Tren de Aragua gang was classified as “is a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States.”

“TdA operates in conjunction with Cártel de los Soles, the Nicolas Maduro regime-sponsored, narco-terrorism enterprise based in Venezuela, and commits brutal crimes, including murders, kidnappings, extortions, and human, drug, and weapons trafficking,” it went on.

“TdA has engaged in and continues to engage in mass illegal migration to the United States to further its objectives of harming United States citizens, undermining public safety, and supporting the Maduro regime’s goal of destabilizing democratic nations in the Americas, including the United States,” the presidential action also stated.

Trump went on to warn that “TdA is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States.”

The presidential action on the matter was far from over, going on to say that Tren de Aragua “is undertaking hostile actions and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States both directly and at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela.”

“I make these findings using the full extent of my authority to conduct the Nation’s foreign affairs under the Constitution,” Trump said.

“Based on these findings, and by the authority vested in me by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, including 50 U.S.C. 21, I proclaim that all Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older who are members of TdA, are within the United States, and are not actually naturalized or lawful permanent residents of the United States are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as Alien Enemies,” the presidential action concluded.

As of latest reporting, the federal judge on the case, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg has now blocked the deportation of the migrants after a lawsuit was filed on their behalf.

U.S. Attorney General Pat Bondi tore into Boasberg for his decision to do so saying Boasberg had chosen the “terrorists over the safety of Americans.”

“TdA is represented by the ACLU. This order disregards well-established authority regarding President Trump’s power, and it puts the public and law enforcement at risk. The Department of Justice is undeterred in its efforts to work with the White House, the Department of Homeland Security, and all of our partners to stop this invasion and Make America Safe Again,” Bondi’s statement went on.

The migrants will remain in the United States until Boasberg is able to determine if invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies act was a “legal” maneuver or not.