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Trump administration deports hundreds under Alien Enemies Act despite judges pause

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/16/politics/trump-administration-deportations-alien-enemies-act?cid=ios_app

The Trump administration said Sunday that hundreds of individuals were deported from the country after President Donald Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a sweeping wartime authority which has been used only three times before, to speed up the deportations of migrants affiliated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

The announcement comes after a federal judge temporarily blocked the Trump administrations ability to use the Alien Enemies Act on Saturday evening, and ordered any planes in the air carrying some of those migrants to turn back to the US. The judge said the temporary restraining order will remain in effect for 14 days or until further order of the court.

White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said that at the presidents direction, the Department of Homeland Security had arrested nearly 300 members of Tren de Aragua over the weekend, after Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced earlier Sunday that hundreds of violent criminals were sent out of our country after Trump took action on Saturday.

Rubio also thanked El Salvadors President, Nayib Bukele, for volunteering to imprison the alleged criminals deported from the US and said that Bukele had requested that two leaders of the MS-13 gang, as well as 21 other Salvadorans being held in the US be returned to face justice in their homeland.

Rubio later said in a post on X that the US sent 2 dangerous top MS-13 leaders plus 21 of its most wanted back to face justice in El Salvador. Also, as promised by @POTUS, we sent over 250 alien enemy members of Tren de Aragua which El Salvador has agreed to hold in their very good jails at a fair price that will also save our taxpayer dollars.

Bukele posted on X Sunday morning that the members of Tren de Aragua arrived in El Salvador and have been transferred to CECOT, the Terrorism Confinement Center for a period of one year. His post included a video of men being led off of busses in handcuffs and having their heads shaved.

Sharing a photo of an article about the Saturday ruling that deportation flights must return to the US, Bukele wrote oopsietoo late. Rubio reposted Bukeles post.

CNN has reached out to the State Department and White House for more information about when the flights left the United States.

Republican Sen. Mike Rounds said on CNNs State of the Union that he expects the executive branch is following the law, telling CNNs Jake Tapper we dont know if that happened that way when pressed on if hes concerned that the Trump administration potentially violated the court order.

We expect the executive branch to follow the law. We said in the past that we will follow the law. That will remain consistent, he said, later expressing support for using every legal means possible to deport alleged criminals.

I think most Americans are going to say, I dont care how old the law is, if you can use it to get these guys out and keep my family safe, were going to do it, he said.

CNN has previously reported that Erik Prince, a Trump ally, has been in contact with Bukele since last year about accepting undocumented migrants from the US if Trump was elected.

House Minority Leader Hakeem Jeffries said Sunday that Democrats stand strongly in support of the rule of law in reference to the judges order, and warned against the potential impacts of the Trump administrations aggressive deportation strategy.

All of us within the Democratic Party, we oppose illegal immigration. We believe that if youre a violent felon, you should be deported. But we also cant go down this road that the Trump administration is taking us on and potentially deport American citizens, deport legal and lawful permanent residents and break up law abiding immigrant families who are contributing to this country, he said, expressing the need for comprehensive immigration reform.

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so how many of these people were actually cartel members?

What would happen to me and you if we refused a judges orders?

Judge needs to start issuing warrants starting with the heads of the agencies for defying a court order. No more treating fascists with kid gloves.
Yazarogi posted...

so how many of these people were actually cartel members?

Few if any I'd imagine.

The Party of Law and Order.

Vegy posted...

What would happen to me and you if we refused a judges orders?

warrant for arrest, all you original charges (but with more harsh sentencing rather than lenient), plus extra charges for ignoring the judge

https://theonion.com/trump-claims-he-can-overrule-constitution-with-executiv-1830106306/

Vegy posted...

What would happen to me and you if we refused a judges orders?

You're not a president who has been given "can do anything as an official act" privileges.

Trump has decided that courts are too slow and toothless to oppose him.

He's now actively ignoring judicial orders. If no one stops him, we've crossed the Rubicon to fascism. This is the test.

chaos_knight posted...

He's now actively ignoring judicial orders. If no one stops him, we've crossed the Rubicon to fascism. This is the test.

Yep.

Starks posted...

Trump has decided that courts are too slow and toothless to oppose him.

Unfortunately, he's right. Court cases and appeals move slowly, and the courts have no mechanism to enforce their rulings. That's the job of Congress.

can we actually admit that we are in a full blown constitutional crisis now?

People are being proven to be right yet again.

So, what will be called "dooming" next?

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/17/tom-homan-deportation-flights-trump-court-order

"We are going to make this country safe again ... I'm proud to be a part of this administration. We are not stopping. I don't care what the judges think. I don't care what the Left thinks. We're coming." - Tom Homan, Donald Trump's "Border Czar"

Starks posted...

Trump has decided that courts are too slow and toothless to oppose him.

He is correct.

Trump is above the law so why should he care.

The judges are doing their jobs but no one is enforcing their rulings.

I sure do hope those Democrats learned their lesson

Yazarogi posted...

so how many of these people were actually cartel members?

Republicans: "We were supposed to look for who?"

The lack of care is intentional. Due process is too expensive according to Hohman and others.

And it is costing me and other Americans 6 million for the year according to Al Jazeera.

Why were these people sent to El Salvador?
Bukele is detaining the deportees under a deal in which the US agreed to compensate El Salvador to hold them, Bukele wrote in an X post. The Trump administration will pay about $6m to El Salvador for detaining about 300 alleged Tren de Aragua members from Venezuela for a year.

EDIT although good luck, Mr. Bukele, getting money from #47.

And wats that judge gonna do?
Not a hoe ass thing.

Trump is following the Andrew Jackson approach, asking the judge to enforce his ruling.

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/18/donald-trump-impeach-judge-house-republicans

Just hours after President Trump called for the impeachment of a federal judge who ruled against his deportation of hundreds of Venezuelans over the weekend, House Republicans introduced a measure to do just that.

Rep. Brandon Gill (R-Texas) said Tuesday he is introducing articles of impeachment against Boasberg, arguing he "overstepped his authority, compromised the impartiality of the judiciary, and created a constitutional crisis."

I hate these fucking people.

darkace77450 posted...

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/18/donald-trump-impeach-judge-house-republicans

I hate these fucking people.

oh, so the JUDGE is the one who created a constitutional crisis, eh? WHAT THE FUCK!? that's NOT how it fucking WORKS!

this is bad. this is really bad. dems should have come out IMMEDIATELY with the messaging that Trump defying a court order is a constitutional crisis. they didn't, and now the GOP is able to co-opt that messaging and get it out ahead of anyone else, and convince their cultist base that the literal exact fucking opposite of reality is what's going on.

darkace77450 posted...

https://www.axios.com/2025/03/18/donald-trump-impeach-judge-house-republicans

I hate these fucking people.

And they always do it with the same anti-intellectual smirk. As if playing this game is expected.

The courts had no power over him when he wasn't president, why do they think they have any power now?

So where will they go in a year then?

Remember all the judges blocking Biden's stuff like student loans and republicans not saying shit?

This is such hypocritical baby whiney bullshit. This is a crisis and regular folks don't seem to give a shit

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Link_Love_Zelda posted...

So where will they go in a year then?

6 feet under

Trump posted this on his Truth Social account two days ago.

This Radical Left Lunatic of a Judge, a troublemaker and agitator who was sadly appointed by Barack Hussein Obama, was not elected President - He didnt WIN the popular VOTE (by a lot!), he didnt WIN ALL SEVEN SWING STATES, he didnt WIN 2,750 to 525 Counties, HE DIDNT WIN ANYTHING! I WON FOR MANY REASONS, IN AN OVERWHELMING MANDATE, BUT FIGHTING ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION MAY HAVE BEEN THE NUMBER ONE REASON FOR THIS HISTORIC VICTORY. Im just doing what the VOTERS wanted me to do. This judge, like many of the Crooked Judges I am forced to appear before, should be IMPEACHED!!! WE DONT WANT VICIOUS, VIOLENT, AND DEMENTED CRIMINALS, MANY OF THEM DERANGED MURDERERS, IN OUR COUNTRY. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!!!

Trump said this last September.

"Very brave, and they take a lot of hits because of it. It should be illegal, what happens. You know, you have these guys like playing the ref. These people should be put in jail the way they talk about our judges and our justices."

I see the judge that was appointed by George W. Bush is now a "radical left lunatic".

Kaitouace posted...

I see the judge that was appointed by George W. Bush is now a "radical left lunatic".

The judge also went to boading school with Kavanaugh.