New in PJ Media:
It’s a grim sign of the times that Old Joe Biden’s regime can open the door to millions upon millions of illegal migrants without a peep from the courts, but as soon as President Donald Trump tries to remove them, our self-anointed moral superiors in the judiciary burn the midnight oil to come up with pretexts to stop him. Trump has been trying to use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act as the legal foundation to remove Venezuelan gang members, but several courts, including the Supreme Court, have stymied him. Now, the final showdown has begun in the 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals.
The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 states that “whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President of the United States shall make public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.”
This law has the admirable directness and simplicity that was characteristic of statute-making in an earlier, less complicated age. The extract above continues for a lengthy paragraph, and then the Act goes on for a couple more, but that’s it. If a similar law were drafted in 2025, it would be 700 pages long.
The Alien Enemies Act has been the law of the land for 227 years, even if it has been ignored from time to time. The Trump administration contends that the Act allows today for the deportation of members of the lethal Tren de Aragua gang, which constitutes a “hybrid criminal state.” Trump issued an executive order on March 15 stating that Tren de Aragua was “perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States.” That certainly seems to be the case. Tren de Aragua members didn’t come into the country hoping to get jobs and become “Maryland dads.” They came here to traffic in drugs and engage in other crimes. If that isn’t a “predatory incursion,” what is?
Predictably, leftist advocacy groups that always side against the best interests of the American people took issue with the administration’s efforts. ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt said of the Alien Enemies Act: “This has been invoked three times only in major, major wars. The government is now suggesting you can invoke it with a gang.” In mid-May, the Supreme Court, with Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissenting, agreed and blocked Trump from invoking the act. The block, however, was only temporary: The high court sent the case back to the 5th Circuit Court of Appeals, and on Monday, the appeals court began to hear arguments.
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Tony says
The Democrat Party is a totalitarian ally with Islam’s Muslims using discrimination, deceit, violence, and terrorism against ALL Americans to help gain ultimate power and control of America. To Islam’s Muslims, Democrats are useful idiots to make Islam supreme and to introduce Islamic Law, Sharia.
Allah teaches and promotes terrorism, hatred, and violence by Muslims against Jews and Christians because infidelity, unbelief, and blasphemy are a CRIME AGAINST ALLAH(Quran 9:29; 60:4; 98:6-7; and more). Allah in Quran 5:51 says, “O you who have believed[Muslims], do not take the Jews and the Nasara(Christians) as friends. They are friends to one another. And whoever among you takes them as friends, so surely he is of them. Surely Allah does not guide the unjust people.” See also Quran 2:63-65; 3:115; 4:144; 5:59-60, 82; 7:166. Further, Allah in Qur’an 8:39 says, “And engage in war with them[Non-Muslims] until there will not be sedition and the religion will be completely to Allah…”
࿗Infidel࿘ says
Thanks to SCOTUS, at least the court injunctions being applicable nationwide has been halted by, to many people’s surprise, Amy Coney Barrett. The administration should now start treating the EOs signed on day 1 as operational, and keep escalating the deportations
Also, while I do support deporting everyone illegally, it’s probably a better idea to prioritize criminals who broke laws beyond entering the country illegally or overstaying their visas. Maybe start w/ the violent ones like Tren de Aragua, then go after all the DUI cases involving illegal aliens, then those indulging in “petty” crimes, then those doing things like identity theft, then online scammers and all the way down to the DACA people. That should rob the open borders crowds of one of their talking points of people who clean their toilets getting kicked out
somehistory says
The scum who “overstayed” and then murdered the poor elderly lady in Co, should have been deported instead of being given another visa as he overstayed that one too.