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2025-04-14 -Lurid Crime Tales-
US Supreme Court rules Trump can deport Venezuelans under 18th century wartime law
[IsraelTimes] But justices say administration must first hold a court hearing for those it’s seeking to expel using the Alien Enemies Act

The US Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to use an 18th century wartime law to deport Venezuela

...a country in Central America that sits on an enormous pool of oil. Formerly the most prospereous country in the region, it became infested with Commies sniffing almost unlimited wealth. It turned out the wealth wasn't unlimited, the economy collapsed under the clownish Hugo Chavez, the murder rate exceeded places like Honduras and El Salvador. A significant proportion of the populace refugeed to Colombia and points south...
n migrants colonists, but said they must get a court hearing before they are taken from the United States.

In a bitterly divided decision, the court said the administration must give Venezuelans who it claims are gang members "reasonable time" to go to court.

But the conservative majority said the legal challenges must take place in Texas, instead of a Washington courtroom.

The court’s action appears to bar the administration from immediately resuming the flights that last month carried hundreds of migrants colonists to a notorious prison in El Salvador. The flights came soon after President Donald Trump
...So far he's been unkillable, and they've tried....
 invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since World War II to justify the deportations under a presidential proclamation calling the Tren de Aragua gang an invading force.

The majority said nothing about those flights, which took off without providing the hearing the justices now say is necessary.

In dissent, the three liberal justices said the administration has sought to avoid judicial review in this case, and the court "now rewards the government for its behavior." Justice Amy Coney Barrett joined portions of the dissent.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor said it would be harder for people to challenge deportations individually, wherever they are being held, and noted that the administration has also said in another case before the court that it’s unable to return people who have been deported to the El Salvador prison by mistake.

"We, as a Nation and a court of law, should be better than this," she wrote.

The justices acted on the administration’s emergency appeal after the federal appeals court in Washington left in place an order temporarily prohibiting the deportations of migrants colonists accused of being gang members under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act.

"For all the rhetoric of the dissents," the court wrote in an unsigned opinion, the high court order confirms "that the detainees subject to removal orders under the AEA are entitled to notice and an opportunity to challenge their removal."

The case has become a flashpoint amid escalating tension between the White House and the federal courts. It’s the second time in less than a week that a majority of conservative justices handed Trump at least a partial victory in an emergency appeal after lower courts had blocked parts of his agenda.

Several other cases are pending, including Trump’s plan to deny citizenship to US-born children of parents who are in the country illegally.

Trump praised the court for its action Monday.

"The Supreme Court has upheld the Rule of Law in our Nation by allowing a President, whoever that may be, to be able to secure our Borders, and protect our families and our Country, itself. A GREAT DAY FOR JUSTICE IN AMERICA!" Trump wrote on his Truth Social site.

The original order blocking the deportations to El Salvador was issued by US District Judge James E. Boasberg, the chief judge at the federal courthouse in Washington.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-04-14 2025-04-14 00:04|| || Front Page|| [10334 views ]  Top
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#1 SCOTUS already ruled on the AEA to include the finding that deportations are not subject to judicial review. Once again we have the judiciary granting themselves power without Constitutional or Congressional authority.
Posted by Procopius2k 2025-04-14 07:48||   2025-04-14 07:48|| Front Page Top

#2 There's a huge difference between sending someone back to his home country (or just letting him board a plane to Caracas) and deporting someone without any judicial review into a hellhole prison in a token third country, where nobody has the chance to ever get out again.

What on earth are you doing here? You are basically establishing that your government can do whatever it pleases with any foreigner on your soil, including those being there lawfully. No judicial review necessary before a person you just don't happen to like gets sent into a prison in El Salvador? Why not North Korea?

And then you have Trump who "‘simply floated" idea of deporting U.S. citizens, White House’s Leavitt says.

Excuse me?
Posted by European Conservative 2025-04-14 08:37||   2025-04-14 08:37|| Front Page Top

#3 Life is a choice of evils.
Posted by Grom the Affective 2025-04-14 08:54||   2025-04-14 08:54|| Front Page Top

#4  Criminal crackdown 10 more violent illegal migrants — including 5 Tren de Aragua gangbangers — deported from US to El Salvador over the weekend
Posted by Frank G 2025-04-14 09:31||   2025-04-14 09:31|| Front Page Top

#5 We are deporting illegal aliens. If you don't like it, don't sneak into our country and break our laws.
Posted by Regular joe 2025-04-14 14:54||   2025-04-14 14:54|| Front Page Top

#6 This is not "deportation". Your government sends people to a foreign concentration camp (that's what it is) without any judicial review. And your president announces that he would like to do the same with U.S. citizens.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-04-14 15:57||   2025-04-14 15:57|| Front Page Top

#7 /\ El Sal won the bid.

"Nothing personal, it's just business."
~ Otto Biederman
Posted by Besoeker 2025-04-14 16:29||   2025-04-14 16:29|| Front Page Top

#8 The illegal was from El Salvador, and they chose where to put the gangbanger
Posted by Regular joe 2025-04-14 17:29||   2025-04-14 17:29|| Front Page Top

#9 Your government sends people to a foreign concentration camp (that's what it is) without any judicial review. And your president announces that he would like to do the same with U.S. citizens

That's a crock of shit. Don't want to be deported? Don't come illegally. You cross a passive country, you LOSE the right to claim asylum. NO US Citizens have been or will be deported...droned maybe (See Awlacki) under Obama? You may pretend to be conservative, but you are European, EC.
Posted by Frank G 2025-04-14 17:32||   2025-04-14 17:32|| Front Page Top

#10 Re #6. And your president announces that he would like to do the same with U.S. citizens

To which he added that he (and his cabinet) must always follow the law. From my point of view, his use of the word "like" was a statement of desire rather than a prediction, akin to "alas, I wish" rather than "I will".

He then said he'd abide by the decision of the Supreme Court, intimating he isn't too keen on the decisions of the lower courts so will appeal all such rulings all the way to SCOTUS. SCOTUS did limit the standing of the district court judges w.r.t habeus petitions. The system is working. We are in the midst of a lesson about what process is due an enemy alien.

The constitution states

he shall take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed,

and

no person shall be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law

but the law states:

Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies. The President is authorized in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed on the part of the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety.

SCOTUS will decide it, and the rest of us will abide by it.

Posted by Melancholic 2025-04-14 17:55||   2025-04-14 17:55|| Front Page Top

#11 Eloquently argued, Melancholic. Thank you.
Posted by trailing wife 2025-04-14 18:22||   2025-04-14 18:22|| Front Page Top

#12 Trump claimed he "didn't know what the law is". The President of the United States who took an oath to "support and defend the Constitution" doesn't know that he can't deport U.S. citizens to foreign prisons?

Should be quite interesting when President Alejandra Ocasio-Cortez sends MAGA-supporters as "terrorists" to Cuban jails and says that she wants to ban the posession of all arms. She just doesn't know what the law says.

Yes Frank G, I'm European. And Conservative. One of those who believe in due process and justice for all.
Posted by European Conservative 2025-04-14 18:34||   2025-04-14 18:34|| Front Page Top

#13 Watch the hands, not what's said, EC. EU Pols talk tough and do/fund shit.
Name one US citizen actually deported by Trump. You have a 4 year term + to refer to?
Posted by Frank G 2025-04-14 18:40||   2025-04-14 18:40|| Front Page Top

#14 This POS claims fears he would be harmed by RIVAL gangs? Does that make any sense as to why we would bring him back?
Posted by Frank G 2025-04-14 18:59||   2025-04-14 18:59|| Front Page Top

#15 #8 The illegal was from El Salvador, and they chose where to put the gangbanger

Your government sends people to a foreign concentration camp ... without any judicial review

Through the magic of dog sitting, I happened to see the presser with Trump and El Salvador's Prez Bukele. It was all quite entertaining.

A couple observations:

Trump and Bukele seemed to be getting along like pals.

Two US courts (immigration and immigration appeal) had ruled the guy exported to El Salvador, Abrego Garcia, was a gang-banger. When the gang came under the Alien SOB Act or whatever it's called, he became deportable to his home country.

Bukele said he will not send criminals to the US. He took justifiable pride in converting El Salvador from a regional murder capital to one of safer places in the hemisphere.

Trump says he has no control over El Salvadoran citizens in El Salvador, no matter what a district court might eventually rule after they re-mull over the ruling the Supreme Court punted back to them and figure out what "facilitate" and "effectuate" mean.


Posted by SteveS 2025-04-14 20:08||   2025-04-14 20:08|| Front Page Top

#16 ^ All accurate. I did enjoy the tag-team abuse hurled at Kaitlin Collins (D-Douchebag/CNN) with facts. Luckily for her she was off-camera
Posted by Frank G 2025-04-14 20:22||   2025-04-14 20:22|| Front Page Top

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