The United States Supreme Court granted Donald Trump a victory on Monday by allowing him to use a 1798 law, which was historically only applied in war, to quickly deport alleged alleged members of Venezuelan gangs as part of the Republican President’s line-to-line approach to immigration.
The court complied with the government’s request to suspend the order of March 15 of US James Bomberg, headquartered in Washington, which temporarily blocked deportations under the law of foreign enemies by Trump, while the dispute in the case continues.
Trump invoked the law of foreign enemies on March 15 to quickly deport alleged members of the Aragua Tren gang, trying to accelerate deportations with a law best known for its use for Japanese, Italian and German immigrants during World War II.
In a legal challenge led by the US Union for Civil Freedoms, a group of Venezuelan men in the custody of US immigration authorities on the same day filed an action on their own and others in a similar situation, seeking to block deportations.
They argued, among other things, that Trump’s order exceeded their powers because the law of foreign enemies only authorizes removal when the war is declared or the United States are invaded.
The Law of Foreign Enemies authorizes the president to deport, deter or impose restrictions on individuals whose main loyalty is to a foreign power and who may pose a risk to national war security.
Bomberg, appointed by Democratic President Barack Obama, temporarily blocked the deportations. But Trump’s administration allowed two airplanes to continue to El Salvador, where US authorities handed 238 Venezuelan men to the Salvadoran authorities to be placed at the Central American country’s “Terrorism Confinement Center”.
The judge also analyzed whether the Trump administration violated his order by not bringing back the deportation flights after the verdict was issued.
Justice department lawyers said the flights had already left US air space as Boasberg issued a written order and therefore were not required to return. They rejected the weight of Bomberg’s order during an audience two hours earlier, asking for the return of any planes carrying deported.
Trump’s administration argued that Bomberg’s temporary prohibition has usurped the presidential authority to make national security decisions.
On March 18, Trump called for the impeachment of Bomberg for Congress-a lawsuit that could remove him from the bank-attracting a rebuke from US Supreme Court President John Roberts.
Trump called Bomberg a “radical left lunatic” and a “troublemaker and agitator” on social networks. Bomberg was confirmed by the US Senate in 2011 in a 96-0 bipartisan vote.
The relatives of many of the deported Venezuelan migrants deny the alleged gang connections. The lawyers of one of the deported, a Venezuelan professional soccer player and youth coach said US authorities erroneously labeled him as a member of a gang based on a crown tattoo for honoring his favorite team, Real Madrid.
This content was originally published in Supreme Court supports Trump in case of deportations under war law on CNN Brazil.
Source: CNN Brasil
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