Border Czar Tom Homan embarrassed a reporter who tried to press him with a gotcha query concerning using the ‘Alien Enemies Act’ of 1798 to deport prison migrants.
The reporter pressed Homan on using
A reporter requested, “What do you say to those that declare you might be utilizing a 200-year-old legislation to avoid due course of?”
“An outdated legislation?” Homan replied. “It’s not as outdated because the Structure and we nonetheless take note of that don’t we?”
The reporter continued to pepper him with inquiries to attempt to salvage the interplay, however Homan walked away.
Watch:
Reporter: “That legislation is 200 years outdated!”
Tom Homan: “Effectively, the Structure is so much older than that and we nonetheless comply with it” pic.twitter.com/igOANjPfb1
— Finish Wokeness (@EndWokeness) March 17, 2025
The Gateway Pundit reported that President Trump activated the ‘Alien Enemies Act’ of 1798 to deport prison migrants.
“These topic to the Alien Enemies Act wouldn’t be allowed to have a courtroom listening to or an asylum interview since they’d be processed underneath an emergency, wartime authority — not immigration legislation. As a substitute, they’d be eligible to be detained and deported, with little to no due course of, underneath Title 50, the part of the U.S. code housing America’s warfare and protection legal guidelines.”
On Saturday, a radical federal choose, Chief Decide James E. Boasberg, an Obama-appointed leftist, granted a brief restraining order to cease the Trump administration from deporting 1000’s of Venezuelan nationals underneath the Alien Enemies Act—an motion nicely inside the govt’s constitutional authority.
Their lawsuit, J.G.G. v. Trump, seeks to upend Trump’s lawful enforcement of immigration legal guidelines, arguing that invoking the Alien Enemies Act—a wartime measure traditionally used to take away hostile international nationals—is someway “unprecedented” and “illegal” throughout peacetime.
