Oh Donald?….
COME ON!
Things get ‘HOT’ with the Judge and you duck?
Ah?
Next question?
So if the President didn’t authorize the flights?
WHO DID?
And?
We do NOT want to hear SHIT about Biden auto pens…..
President Trump downplayed his involvement in invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants, saying for the first time he hadn’t signed the proclamation — even though his signature is on it, CNN reports.
Said Trump: “I don’t know when it was signed because I didn’t sign it. Other people handled it, but Marco Rubio has done a great job and he wanted them out and we go along with that.”
“A federal judge in Washington expressed skepticism on Friday about the Trump administration’s policy of using a powerful and rarely invoked wartime statute to summarily deport immigrants from the country,” the New York Times reports.
“The judge, James Boasberg, suggested at an hourlong hearing that the White House had stretched the meaning of the statute, the Alien Enemies Act, by applying it to scores of Venezuelan immigrants. The administration accused those immigrants of being members of a violent street gang and flew them to El Salvador last weekend with little or no due process.”
Wall Street Journal: Judge raises concerns about Trump’s use of wartime powers for deportations.
CNN: Boasberg says Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act has ‘frightening’ implications.
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CNN political analyst Elie Honig is questioning President Trump over his recent deflection on how the 1798 Alien Enemies Act was invoked by the administration to speed up the deportation of Venezuelan migrants allegedly linked to gang activity.
Trump, speaking to reporters on Friday, suggested that “other people” handled the proclamation, pointing to Secretary of State Marco Rubio. He added that Rubio “has done a great job, and he wanted them out and we go along with that … We want to get criminals out of our country.”
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On Friday, the judge vowed “to get to the bottom” of the issue, after the Justice Department resisted his demands for more information about the flights, citing national security concerns and accusing him of encroaching on the executive branch’s authority.
Honig seemingly agreed with the judge, citing “a couple of flaws” in the administration’s argument for invoking the law.
“First of all, there has to be an invasion, and it has to be by a foreign government,” Honig said. “And Donald Trump, if you look at the proclamation, which maybe he did or didn’t sign, tries to sort of put together a very stretched argument that, ‘Yes, this was an invasion, yes, it was somehow tied with the Government of Venezuela.’”
He acknowledged that while most people do not want violent criminals in the country, those in the U.S. illegally could be deported under normal statutes….
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Venezuela announced Saturday that it had reached an agreement with the Trump administration to resume accepting deportation flights carrying migrants who were in the United States illegally, with the first one landing as soon as Sunday.
Part of Venezuela’s willingness to accept the flights appeared related to the plight of Venezuelan migrants whom the Trump administration recently sent to notorious prisons in El Salvador with little to no due process. In a statement on Saturday, a representative for the Venezuelan government said: “Migration isn’t a crime, and we will not rest until we achieve the return of all of those in need and rescue our brothers kidnapped in El Salvador.”
The White House did not respond to a request for comment Saturday, though one of the president’s close allies, Richard Grenell, said earlier this month that the Venezuelans had agreed to accept the flights….
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