...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 gang Tren de Aragua using an 18th-century wartime law.
In a 2-1 ruling, the Fifth US Circuit Court of Appeals sided with immigrant rights lawyers and lower court judges who argued the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 was not created to be used against gangs like Tren de Aragua.
''The Trump administration's use of a wartime statute during peacetime to regulate immigration was rightly shut down by the court,'' Lee Gelernt, who argued the case for the American Civil Liberties Union, said. ''This is a critically important decision reining in the administration's view that it can simply declare an emergency without any oversight by the courts.''
The Alien Enemies Act was previously used only three times in US history, and all came during declared wars in the War of 1812 and the two World Wars.
The Trump administration claimed that courts cannot second-guess the president's determination that Tren de Aragua was connected to Venezuela's government and represented a danger to the US, which it argued warranted using the law.
The administration deported alleged Tren de Aragua members to a mega-prison in El Salvador where, officials argued, US courts could not order their release.
More than 250 of the deported
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