A federal judge has issued a temporary block on President Donald Trump's invocation of the Alien Enemies Act to speed up the deportation of violent illegal immigrants.
The temporary block issued by U.S. District Judge James E. Boasberg required flights already carrying out deportations to be halted and any flights en route to be turned around.
The Alien Enemies Act has only been used three times in U.S. history, with the last use during World War II to detain individuals from enemy nations.
Trump's opponents are using that factor to argue that his use of the Alien Enemies Act is illegitimate because it's being used to detain and deport citizens from nations that aren't technically engaged in war with the United States.
Of course, that interpretation is based entirely on the last use of the Alien Enemies Act during World War II. There is no doubt that foreign citizens who are a clear and present danger to the public would fall under "Alien Enemies."
Trump was given a mandate by the American people to aggressively deport both violent and non-violent illegal immigrants who came in by the million under former President Joe Biden.
However, at every turn, Trump's deportation agenda has run into obstacles from an activist judiciary that is doing everything to stop Trump's agenda regardless of legality.
In an executive order invoking the Alien Enemies Act, Trump stated, "Over the years, Venezuelan national and local authorities have ceded ever-greater control over their territories to transnational criminal organizations, including TdA. The result is a hybrid criminal state that is perpetrating an invasion of and predatory incursion into the United States, and which poses a substantial danger."
While the United States may not be at war with Venezuela, a country ruled by a socialist dictator, the United States is definitely at war with the terrorist organization that holds substantial territory within Venezuela.
Deputy Assistant Attorney General Drew Ensign pointed this out in arguing that Trump had the authority to determine threats to national security and act under the 1798 law.
However, thanks to this injunction from Judge Boasberg, who was appointed by former President Barack Obama, the Trump administration will likely have to fight all the way to the Supreme Court before the deportation of violent and dangerous illegal immigrants can resume.
The threat to the nation posed by Central and South American gangs cannot be understated. Members of violent organizations like TdA and MS-13 often commit violent acts as rites of initiation including murder, rape, and torture.
Judge Boasberg made the insulting claim in his injunction that "A brief delay in their removal does not cause the government any harm," which ignores the very real harm that violent criminals inflict on citizens and American society at large.
Nursing student Laken Riley would strongly disagree with Judge Boasberg's claim if she were still alive. Unfortunately, Riley was brutally murdered by illegal immigrant Jose Ibarra, who is a member of TdA.
These monstrous criminals must be deported immediately, and activist judges like James Boasberg must be held accountable for endangering Americans by allowing these illegal immigrants to remain in the United States.
