BREAKING NEWS: In a presidential action Saturday, Trump invoked the wartime authority Alien Enemies Act, targeting members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua to immediate detention and deportation.
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i'm sure the Trump administration will put in a ton of effort to make sure they are only targeting and deporting members of that gang and that gang alone.
like all the effort they put in with the 1500 pardons to make sure they weren't releasing known 'patriot' pedophiles into American cities.
So apparently 1790 is when we were "great" and we're going back to a pre-industrial society with enormous wealth disparity, mass illiteracy, white male suffrage, and slavery. Thanks for the clarification, President of MAGAstan.
Illegal. There’s need to be major major pushback. We already possess the power to remove and deport these people when appropriate. This is a bullshit cover for him to use this power inappropriately of course.
This regime consists of un-American extremists intent on making a mockery of the constitution and laws of the US. We have plenty of laws to deal with criminal gangs. There’s basis to falsely invoke an extreme wartime measure unless you are a fascist regime.
War can only be declared by Congress. King Donald has NO authority to invoke the Act. Note that the last time it was invoked - wrongly - at least the U.S. was in a declared war.
It was this and several others Alien&Sedition acts passed by the Federalist that brought about their downfall in 1800. The end of the Federalist Party. The end of the Trump/GOP party.
It’s gonna cause a revolution! The people are pissed and it’s gonna get bad enough that we will defend ourselves and our country from this wanna be dictator! Dictators get overthrown all the time!
he is going to use it as an excuse to deport anyone undocumented. And given ICE's stellar performance up to now, probably a bunch of other people who have legal status for good measure.
One minute he’s saying border crossings are the lowest in history and the next he says we’re being invaded. This won’t work. You have to be at war to invoke this 1798 law. This was the law used to justify the internment of Japanese Americans in wwii. And its constitutionality was upheld.
(To paraphrase Dr. Malcolm)...something tells me that Trump and his advisors were so preoccupied with whether or not they could invoke the Alien Enemies Act...they didn't stop to think if they should.
If you're 5 years old, do you have to prove you're not a member of a Venezuelan gang? Do you even get the opportunity to prove your innocence when they cast a wide net?
Best part is, despite being a third generation US Citizen on my mother's side myself, once they get rid of Birthright Citizenship, there's nothing I can do to prove I'm *not* actually a member of a Venezuelan gang here in the country illegally!
I worry a lot about the birthright citizenship aspect too. They would start off saying they're only after criminals and then strip whole populations of citizenship and start deporting or detaining.
The whole Alien Enemies Act... people are not as safe as they might think.
Yeah. They take away Birthright Citizenship, then it's exclusively who they SAY is a Citizen who becomes a Citizen. And if you aren't a Citizen but you have nowhere to go...well.
Those For Profit Prison Systems always need more Slave Labor.
Well... I've been trying not to go there, but given Musk/Trump + Republican talk about government needing to make money... yeah, I think Trump would be comfortable if a lot of citizens become slave labor.
If you haven't yet, go ahead and slide down the Thiel/Musk/PayPal Gang's political leanings.
Long and short of it, they dream of a world full of Techno-Autocratic micro-nations that are not beholden to the people living within them. aka Corporate Dystopia of 80s fiction, but unironically.
Not the worst part, but why run a photo showing him in a suit as if he's a normal president? Tertiary syphilitic is at his private golf club and just signing whatever's put in front of him by #project2025.
Agreed, but it was that Reagan abolished the Fairness Doctrine in 1987, setting media on it path to the present infopropoganda, and it certainly was Clinton's Neo Liberal 3rd Way policies that sold us out corporations and bankers.
Expect Trump to do this with nationals of every country that doesn't agree with the felons desires - Palestinians, South Africans, Canadians, Danish and every other country that retaliates to the US' imperialist desires.
I don't think he's smart enough to do all this on his own. He's not the only one running the country into the ground. He's definitely doing what his "toadies" are suggesting.
Well he is Americas president/king so America needs to deal with him! I don’t care who he is “doing” it for. Deal with him before he destroys the world. No wonder the world dislikes Americans so much. 😡😡
You know what? At this point, all the times they told us "you're crazy," "you're hysterical," "that will never happen," or "that's not what he meant," then watching it happen in real time-if we all suffer, so be it 🤷♀️ nothing else seems to get through their thick skulls and bigotry
If you don’t want to be the next victim of Trump and his fascists gangs evil, you better march on Washington soon and throws these America-hating corrupt fascists Putin-worshiping s-holes out. A tactic he himself calls patriotic.
Ok, he’s definitely invoking the Insurrection Act to put military boots on American soil. We all understand that now, right? He’s going to use our own military against us.
This is serious shit if anyone reading this doesn't know. Wartime presidents have a MASSIVE amount of power. Trump will use this as a stepping stool to the insurrection act and Marshall law. No more elections as he'll suspend them and the US will be "at war" for the next 100 years.
Martial Law is a declaration of war.
Be prepared for war and fight it if it comes, but understand perceived intentions of a proven liar is nothing to panic about.
Trump and the media say a lot of shit. Don't fall into the Fox News slippery slope nonsense.
I was just writing about this. My friend used to be a linguist in the military. He says all his buddies still serving are getting ordered to the Southern border. That would mean military boots on American soil. To be used against Americans.
Would I be okay with this if it were Venezuelan gang members? Certainly. But they don’t go after gang members. They go after anyone who looks brown and speaks Spanish and if they are actually from Venezuela, well clearly gang members in Trump land.
I'm gonna go out on a limb here & say that the vast majority of immigrants from Venezuela are families, women & children whose lives are in danger from that lawless dictatorship.
Kinda like what we're starting to do...
Where are the people that are supposed to protect the constitution?? And by people I mean the real military, the real Secret Service, the real courts???
NPR following the Administration's framing, as always.
Trump claimed the people he wanted to report were gang members, but until a court finds there's actual evidence of that,
as required by US immigration law, we have to presume they're just Venezuelans he felt like attacking.
It's a smokescreen, since this category of criminal can already be deported.
When extrapolated with the Patriot Act, it allows Americans to be disappear.
What it does do is remove rights, Judiciary and even charges.
The focus are Enemies of the Administration
The headline on the article says "enacts". Please change to "invokes," like you put here. As a Government teacher, let me say how important it is not to give people the wrong idea, such as leading people to think a President can enact laws.
So when exactly did Congress declare war? Is that not a legal requirement for invoking this authority? Not that this administration has any respect for legalities.
Any news outlet that wasn't calling this guy a fascist when it was blatantly obvious is culpable in all of this. They knew damn well what Trump long before November.
Also used during WW2 as EO#9066 against Japanese Americans. No harsh legislation was enacted against persons of German or Italian ancestry anywhere in the country.
And other peoples of Asian descent were harassed and assaulted during this time period.
Make no mistake, the "war" may be on Venezuelan gangs... But to a White, Narrow-minded Republican, they're all Mexicans and will be treated as such.
Exactly.The Chinese inclusion act of 1882,alien land law,
Indian removal act,the soot suit riots in 1943,repatriation programs (1930s),operation wetback (1954). J. Baldwin said in 1963,“American history is longer, larger, more various, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”
How do you prove someone is a member of a gang without due process of law?
Depending on which judge he draws, I expect he’s going to have a hard time presenting evidence that the US is at war & he therefore is a wartime President, with the powers it confers.
So he's going to literally declare war on countries so he can deport people from there that are in the US?? Holy cow. Horrendous and is going to get way out of hand quickly.
All that just to maybe catch and deport a couple gang members that are probably already sitting in a jail cell.... Orrrrr is he doing this to round up people that have a tanner shade of skin then me and you.
Let's be honest. Trump wants to be able to sweep up brown people and declare them "an enemy". He will put them in private concentration camps for profit. Who did Nazi this coming? This is another trial run to see how far he can go. It won't stop here. Resist! 👀 ✊
They will argue that they have no standing to bring this to court. This will go to the Supreme Court. Hopefully the Judicial Branch is on the peoples' side.
SCOTUS may interpret his foreign terrorists proclamation and our movement on our borders as defense acts and may agree that we are at war with a foreign entity.
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The AEA is meant for wartime. He will use it to deport anyone for any or no reason.
like all the effort they put in with the 1500 pardons to make sure they weren't releasing known 'patriot' pedophiles into American cities.
It's a mixed-race society, like America.
This is how it is done;
dive your ass in laws and acts to fight Rump
Leave those think tanks alone.
Ugh.
The whole Alien Enemies Act... people are not as safe as they might think.
Those For Profit Prison Systems always need more Slave Labor.
We have to keep fighting.
Long and short of it, they dream of a world full of Techno-Autocratic micro-nations that are not beholden to the people living within them. aka Corporate Dystopia of 80s fiction, but unironically.
It was "compassionate fascism," but all it takes is one demogogue to flip that into a nationalist dystopia, as we are seeing.
Fuck every single traitor that voted to kill what was left of Amerikkka.
Give him a minute.
Sedition Act of 1798 criminalized false and malicious statements about the federal government
Unless the courts don't stop him there isn't reason to be this hyperbolic yet. There's fuck all you can do anyway.
Be prepared for war and fight it if it comes, but understand perceived intentions of a proven liar is nothing to panic about.
Trump and the media say a lot of shit. Don't fall into the Fox News slippery slope nonsense.
Kinda like what we're starting to do...
The US is going fascist at lightspeed. There will be nothing to save after 4 years if people don't stop this barrage of insanity and recklessness.
Donald Trump is enacting 18th century policies in all areas of Federal administration.
Vote your best interests 2026!!!
Trump claimed the people he wanted to report were gang members, but until a court finds there's actual evidence of that,
as required by US immigration law, we have to presume they're just Venezuelans he felt like attacking.
When extrapolated with the Patriot Act, it allows Americans to be disappear.
What it does do is remove rights, Judiciary and even charges.
The focus are Enemies of the Administration
If DonOld had any idea where these folks are, he would have already grabbed them.
Big question is when does he turn the military loose on US Citizens, 'cuz that's on the agenda.
Make no mistake, the "war" may be on Venezuelan gangs... But to a White, Narrow-minded Republican, they're all Mexicans and will be treated as such.
Indian removal act,the soot suit riots in 1943,repatriation programs (1930s),operation wetback (1954). J. Baldwin said in 1963,“American history is longer, larger, more various, and more terrible than anything anyone has ever said about it.”
Depending on which judge he draws, I expect he’s going to have a hard time presenting evidence that the US is at war & he therefore is a wartime President, with the powers it confers.
@ximenabustillo.bsky.social @npr.org shouldn't you use a truth sandwich approach more clearly?
Trump's purporting to invoke the Alien Enemies Act *without a declaration of war*
https://bsky.app/profile/marcelias.bsky.social/post/3lkh7oqceas23
He was born in Mumbai India.
Does It Apply to Illegal Immigrants Involved in Crime?
No, because the Alien Enemies Act only applies to nationals of a country the U.S. is at war with, and only during wartime.
Most illegal immigrants involved in crimes are not from enemy nations under a state of war.
https://www.lawdork.com/p/alien-enemies-act-venezuela-tro
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