Trump Invokes Alien Enemies Act And IMMEDIATELY Gets Smacked Down By Court

It was announced on Saturday afternoon that Donald Trump had invoked the Alien Enemies Act in order to speed up deportations in the country (which had fallen to a level BELOW what we saw during the Biden Administration.) But his declaration was short lived, as a federal judge almost immediately smacked it down and halted deportations. This isn’t the end of the fight, and the ending could be far worse than the actual declaration, as Ring of Fire’s Farron Cousins explains.

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*This transcript was generated by a third-party transcription software company, so please excuse any typos.

On Friday, Donald Trump signed and on Saturday officially announced that he was invoking the Alien Enemies Act in order to speed up deportations here in the United States. But he says specifically it's because we got this Venezuelan gang here in the United States. And of course, uh, we gotta get them out. Now, that's actually something that easily could have been done without the Alien Enemies Act. You did not need to invoke that to get these people outta here. You already had them in detention facilities, right? They weren't out there doing gang activity. You already had 'em. They were just awaiting their court cases, which even as potential gang members, they are in fact entitled to the Alien Enemies Act has only been invoked three other times in the history of the United States. In all of those during wartime, uh, the most notable, of course, is when the United States used it during World War II to put Japanese Americans in internment camps.

So, typically never a good thing when this law is invoked by the President. And this time, of course, Donald Trump did it, not because it was necessary, but because he's been off about the fact that deportations are not happening as quickly as he wants them to. That is the bottom line. A report came out just about a week and a half ago, showing that in the month of February, in spite of Donald Trump's migrant raids and all that stuff, the number of deportations actually fell below the number of monthly deportations that we had during the Biden administration. So Trump was dropping the ball and he wasn't happy. He was yelling, he was mad behind the scenes. So this is what he did. It's not because of Venezuelan gang members, it's because he was mad. More non-white people were not getting shipped outta the country. That's what happened.

As I said, he signed it Friday. It wasn't announced officially until Saturday. And within a matter of hours, a federal judge had already smacked it down and immediately put a halt on all deportations, not just the ones under the Alien Enemies Act all deportations. US District Judge James Bosberg on Saturday ordered the Trump administration to immediately halt efforts to remove those Venezuelan migrants until he has more time to consider whether Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act was illegal. The lawsuit brought on behalf of five named Venezuelan immigrants was provisionally turned into a class action, meaning it serves as a block on deportation of all non-citizens in US custody who are subject to Trump's proclamation. Invoking the rarely used law. The judge said, any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States. However that is accomplished. Make sure

It's complied with immediately. The judge said, so not all deportations, okay? It is just the ones under the Alien Enemies Act. I, I think I got that mixed up earlier, but, okay, so you can't use this act to deport people. Anybody you're trying to deport under this, immediately halted not gonna happen. The judge only put a 14 day restraining order on this though, because the judge says, that should be more than enough time for me to make my proclamation or decision, I guess, uh, on whether or not it's even legal for you to do this. Now, Trump, in his order, had actually told the DOJ, you've got 60 days to basically implement this policy and, you know, come up with reasons why I'm legally allowed to do it. So the DOJ has a lot more time than the judge is giving them. 'cause the judge says, 14 days, I'm gonna have a ruling.