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NEW: The Trump administration is expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping wartime authority, in the coming days, sources familiar w/ the move tell @priscialva @jmhansler & me
The move is designed to speed up the president's mass deportation pledge
The announcement, which could be made as soon as tomorrow, will come in the form of a presidential proclamation
The move would likely pave the way for quicker removals of certain immigrants
Trump promised to do this at his second inaugural.
President Donald Trump is reportedly set to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to facilitate the mass deportations of illegal immigrants.
The president repeatedly vowed to take such action on the campaign trail and after he was elected last year. Now, it appears the plan will be set in motion, according to CNN White House correspondent Alayna Treene who reported the move in a post on X.
During his second inaugural address, Trump declared that, "By invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, I will direct our government to use the full and immense power of federal and state law enforcement to eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks bringing devastating crime to U.S. soil, including our cities and inner cities."
It is unclear exactly how the administration will carry out this strategy, but there are indications that it will be used to target criminal gangs. A senior White House official told CNN in February that "Labeling Tren de Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization was the first step."
The advantage of invoking this law is to deport criminal aliens without allowing them to remain in the US while their phony asylum claims are processed. It takes 6-10 years for the immigration courts to resolve an asylum claim -- and of course most of these claims are frivolous, and the illegal alien ignores his ultimate deportation order anyway.
After having 3-6 anchor babies, naturally.
But CNN talked to some "experts."
Experts told CNN last year that if the Trump administration does invoke the Alien Enemies Act, immigrant and civil rights advocates are likely to argue it's illegal to use the law to detain and deport foreign nationals under these circumstances.
"There is no military invasion or military predatory incursion being perpetrated by an actual foreign nation or government," says Katherine Yon Ebright of the Brennan Center at New York University. "And so, irrespective of how broadly or narrowly he would like to apply it, we would oppose any invocation as an abuse of a wartime authority."
Relatedly: Now it can be told. Biden "cooked the books" on illegal alien deportations to make it seem like he was deporting illegals while in reality, he was keeping almost all of them.
Check this fraud out: When they released an illegal alien they found illegally crossing the border into the country, they counted this as an "arrest."
Hey, they did stop the illegal alien for five minutes before releasing him. That technically counts as an "arrest" (a stop in movement, however temporarily).
ICE uncovers Biden Admin "cooking the books" on illegal alien arrests
Thu Mar 13 2025
ICE officials revealed that the Biden administration falsely inflated illegal alien arrest numbers by counting individuals processed and released into the U.S. as ICE arrests. Since President Trump took office, actual arrests have already surpassed all of 2024.
Key Details:
Acting ICE Director Todd Lyons stated that the Biden administration misled the public by categorizing released individuals as "arrests."
A review found tens of thousands of falsely recorded arrests in 2024.
ICE has made 32,809 arrests in less than two months under Trump--nearly surpassing the 33,242 at-large arrests from all of 2024.
Over 1,150 gang members have been arrested since Trump took office, more than double the same period last year.
Diving Deeper:
Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) has accused the Biden administration of manipulating arrest data to mislead the American public about its enforcement actions against illegal immigration. According to acting ICE Director Todd Lyons, an internal review found that the Biden administration had been classifying individuals who were simply processed and released into the U.S. as ICE arrests.
"We have uncovered that the previous administration... was cooking the books on ICE data," Lyons told reporters Wednesday. "They were purposely misleading the American people by categorizing individuals processed and released into the interior of the United States as ICE arrests."