Trump administration deports hundreds under Alien Enemies Act despite judge’s pause
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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 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 administration’s 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 president’s 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 Salvador’s 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.
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