Federal judge halts deportations under wartime powers that Trump invoked against Venezuelan gang

A gang declared war to another gang..

LOL

Claiming the United States was being invaded by a Venezuelan gang, President Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping war time authority that allows the president broader leeway on policy and executive action to speed up mass deportations of people — potentially pushing his promised crackdown on immigration into higher gear.

Imagine having to lie about your country being invaded because you're too incompetent to carry out mass deportations otherwise. The guy ran on being violently anti "illegals" and he's actually deporting less immigrants than Biden did. Is there anything this man can't fail at?!

Donald doing his best to bolster his "dic(K)traitorship" in the making!

Anyone who entered the US illegally should be deported. Don't care if they enter today or 25 yrs ago.

If they are in-processing for asylum, then they cannot be deported. If they entered illegally, no asylum should be granted, ever. Place an RFID deep inside them so they will be easy to find if they ever try again and deport them.

If you want to immigrate to the US, great. Fill out the paperwork, get the interview, wait in line like all the other legal immigrants. It is only fair.

Nothing bothers me more than people jumping a line. Doesn't matter if it is at a concert, on a roadway, at an airport or when trying to immigrate.

The US needs a maximum limit of immigrants each year and from each country. Some countries have more than filled their quotas. Time to let some other countries have greater chances. But once the total amount is full for a week, month, year, no mas. No exceptions.

Imagine having to lie about your country being invaded because you're too incompetent to carry out mass deportations otherwise.

No lie, Myorkas and Biden let in more than 20 million illegals, that happened, it’s in the books, Border Patrol knows it, as well as Homeland, DOJ and the police and for 4 years the agents were allowed to do their job to protect the border, that’s changed now and this administration will and should use any tool at their disposal to end this nightmare and send these people back. Not about being incompetent, more about seeking the quickest way and to bypass liberal activists judges who would try and slow this process down.

L The guy ran on being violently anti "illegals" and he's actually deporting less immigrantsthan Biden did. Is there anything this man can't fail at?!

That will tick up, there is no question about it.

No lie, Myorkas and Biden let in more than 20 million illegals

I think you meant 200 BILLION AT LEAST!!!!!

it’s in the books,

Kash Patel's books, yeah. The 20 million number has been debunked numerous times.

https://cmsny.org/correcting-record-false-misleading-statements-on-immigration/

That will tick up, there is no question about it.

They are already well behind their goals for deportations and will never attain them, it's mathematically impossible at this point. Just take the L.

Bass,

wrong! It wasn't 20 million illegals, it was 8 million. (see here: budget.house.gov/imo/media/doc/ogr_icymi.pdf)

May I add, that this is the latest "budget.house" site, so under Donald's administration!

But I agree, under Donald's reign it was roughly 3 million - much less!

However, (yup, "HOWEVER") remember what time it was?

COVID in the air, a staggering economy, less border protection (remember the Mexican-paid wall) and so on. So the numbers could've been much higher.

I think you meant 200 BILLION AT LEAST!!!!!

No

Kash Patel's books, yeah. The 20 million number has been debunked numerous times.

Hardly, I will take the word of the Border Patrol over any NYC liberal think tank organization, nice try.

They are already well behind their goals for deportations and will never attain them, it's mathematically impossible at this point. Just take the L.

That will tick up, it’s March, relax.

wrong! It wasn't 20 million illegals, it was 8 million.

Again, I trust the border stats and we didn’t even talk about the gotaways, but leafs say for arguments sake it’s 8 million, that’s still way, way frightening too many.

Anyway, I’m mush happier now.

I will take the word of the Border Patrol over any NYC liberal think tank organization, nice try.

Can you show us an authoritative source for this 20 million figure?

How many illegals entered the US during Biden's term?

According to the Border Security, it was 7.1 million people until January 2024. The total figure for illegal people is 11 million.

Myorkas and Biden let in more than 20 million illegals, that happened, it’s in the books,

Wrong figures.

No lie, Myorkas and Biden let in more than 20 million illegals

During Trump's term, he also allowed millions of illegals into the country on his watch. His so-called wall was never finished and he even though he promised that Mexico would pay for it, they did not.

Trump's deportation rates at this point hasn't been overwhelming. It's pretty much in line with Biden's numbers.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/03/politics/deportation-flights-trump-biden-dg/index.html

Also, he's released all immigrants held in Guantanamo Bay recently and thus wasted about 16 million dollars in doing so.

https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/12/us/politics/ice-migrants-guantanamo.html

Bet you a hundred dollars he responds with some uber-right wing lunatic's X account.

You would be wrong…again as usual.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters

Here is the thing, and I’m most even sure how libs try to justify this, they can’t actually, but every law enforcement agency backed Trump, every last one. They all knew as did the majority of Americans that the Dems were bringing daily millions of people.

How many illegals entered the US during Biden's term?

According to the Border Security, it was 7.1 million people until January 2024. The total figure for illegal people is 11 million.

Even that is way, way too many if that is true.

Wrong figures.

I disagree

https://youtu.be/5piOqPBdQmo?si=uiGqDzx0RfoAD3kP

Thank God this is a thing of the past.

Also, he's released all immigrants held in Guantanamo Bay recently and thus wasted about 16 million dollars in doing so.

The Guantanamo idea was stupid from the get go. All food, water, and other provisions need to be airlifted in--at tremendous cost.

It was simply a way to demonstrate to the MAGA cult that Trump and Hogan are sufficiently tough and mean. Just performative and wasteful BS.

During Trump's term, he also allowed millions of illegals into the country on his watch.

No, he didn’t allow it, Pelosi wouldn’t help him fund the wall and he was dealing with a Democrat Congress

His so-called wall was never finished and he even though he promised that Mexico would pay for it, they did not.

Yup.

https://youtu.be/Q3lBJeIJMrw?si=mYBOII1t1cfFqGw2

Trump's deportation rates at this point hasn't been overwhelming. It's pretty much in line with Biden's numbers. Americans in the end didn’t care who paid for it, they cared that it was just built.

https://edition.cnn.com/2025/03/03/politics/deportation-flights-trump-biden-dg/index.html

Also, he's released all immigrants held in Guantanamo Bay recently and thus wasted about 16 million dollars in doing so.

177 illegal aliens landing in Venezuela that were deported from Guantanamo Bay by President Trump, yesterday! 80 of them are linked to the notorious Tren de Aragua gang that Joe Biden rolled out the welcome mats for!

Money well spent.

The Guantanamo idea was stupid from the get go.

I disagree

All food, water, and other provisions need to be airlifted in--at tremendous cost.

Well, worth it, especially they don’t need to be in the U.S. that is a good thing.

It was simply a way to demonstrate to the MAGA cult that Trump and Hogan are sufficiently tough and mean. Just performative and wasteful BS.

Ok.

No, he didn’t allow it, Pelosi wouldn’t help him fund the wall and he was dealing with a Democrat Congress

Firstly, he said México was going to pay for the wall. Secondly, he had control of Congress for the first two years of his term, during which time he did nothing. It was only after he lost control of Congress that he started to put the bill though and then started whining that the Dems were blocking him.

I'm surprised you've forgotten this sequence of events.

No lie, Myorkas and Biden let in more than 20 million illegals, that happened, it’s in the books,

Only in your book.

177 illegal aliens landing in Venezuela that were deported from Guantanamo Bay by President Trump, yesterday! 80 of them are linked to the notorious Tren de Aragua gang that Joe Biden rolled out the welcome mats for!

Money well spent.

Really Bass? What are the facts....?

President Donald Trump’s failed plan to detain up to 30,000 migrants at Guantánamo Bay has cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

Trump’s administration has detained just 300 migrants at the U.S.-operated facility in Cuba over the last two months. But now, all migrants detained at the facility have since been flown out.

The failed operation cost taxpayers at least $16 million.

Gotta start up that 'ethnic cleansing'. Talking like Milosevic, thinks like, acts like, IS a fascist swine pig. Didn't his Master Muskrat's fascist salute tell you anything? 

Then you need to talk to the Cartels, under Biden over 300K went missing, not a word from the left, had that happened under Trump we wouldn’t hear the end of it, you know it and I know it. Come on now!

https://youtu.be/vWoN9nh7Pyw?si=-5sDfMD3L-4p_9CW

Talks about 'war', 'invasion'. That's totalitarian talk. That was an excuse for Japan's WW2 era fascist regime to commit gross crimes like the Rape of Nanking and invading Manchuria/Manchukuo. 

A nation without borders is not a nation-period!

Has anybody noticed that the 80th anniversary of VE and VJ day are coming up this year? The end of WW2? Of course, the fascist regimes of Italy, Germany, Japan, Thailand, Spain, Portugal, Romania, etc. are now gone but the U.S.A, itself now has a fascist regime. 

And that's SAD. 

What? Oh, dear lord…lol For 4 years when the left silenced conservatives, they didn’t call it fascism then did they?

America is ruled by a pompous ass Caligula now who talks hate trash and loves to show his 'macho'.

No, America is governed by a President elected by the people of this great country who were sick and tired of 12 years of Democrat misery, that’s what happened. Again, every country has a right to sovereignty and the U.S. is no exception

You would be wrong…again as usual.

https://www.cbp.gov/newsroom/stats/nationwide-encounters

Nothing in that link mentions 20 million illegal immigrants under Biden.

every law enforcement agency backed Trump, every last one. 

That is also false. Law enforcement agencies do not back candidates, unions do. And not all unions endorsed Trump.

the Dems were bringing daily millions of people.

Oh, so that would mean billions came in during the Biden administration. You keep changing the figures.

Money well spent.

Why didn't they just send them straight to Venezuela? Why the stopover in Guantanamo? Sounds like a waste of money to me. I think we need to put Elon and his band of Doge teenagers on the case. Chainsaw!

Just more obfuscation to deflect from and obscure the real policy changes....gutting Medicare and Social Security - and giving he and his ultra-rich buds a "yuuuuge" tax break...

It's becoming more clear every day that "The Plan" is to keep the MAGA-faithfull bamboozled and distracted - while he fires and replaces them from their jobs, guts their healthcare, bankrupts them with inflation, and sinks their retirement investments with a tanking stock market...

Our MAGA-friends voted to send themselves and their families into poverty...and they'll gladly do it again...

Sound like a cult?

They are already well behind their goals for deportations and will never attain them, it's mathematically impossible at this point. Just take the L.

That L is for America to take...in terms of homelessness, crime and a burden on the public coffers

Only in your book.

Not my book, talk to Bondi, Homan and Noem , trying to convince me won’t work, maybe you can convince them since that’s their job.

Nothing in that link mentions 20 million illegal immigrants under Biden. 

https://thehill.com/latino/407848-yale-mit-study-22-million-not-11-million-undocumented-immigrants-in-us/

is also false. Law enforcement agencies do not back candidates, unions do. And not all unions endorsed Trump.

They did

Oh, so that would mean billions came in during the Biden administration. You keep changing the figures.

Not me

Why didn't they just send them straight to Venezuela? Why the stopover in Guantanamo?

Does it make a difference? The main this is, they shouldn’t be in the U.S.

Sounds like a waste of money to me. I think we need to put Elon and his band of Doge teenagers on the case. Chainsaw!

I think it’s good money spent, the faster we get these people out, the better for the nation and if they want to come back, they should do so, my grandparents did, they can as well. No excuses.

the Dems were bringing daily millions of people.

--Oh, so that would mean billions came in during the Biden administration. You keep changing the figures.

Not me

Let's say a minimum of 2 million per day were let in during the Biden administration. Over four years that would be something like 2.9 billion illegal immigrants, or a third of the planet's population.

So yes, you are massively exaggerating the figures.

Let's say a minimum of 2 million per day were let in during the Biden administration. Over four years that would be something like 2.9 billion illegal immigrants, or a third of the planet's population.

So yes, you are massively exaggerating the figures.

Not me.

https://youtu.be/qN8EBQxgEkU?si=j3TS2A9XrGl60T8Q

Trump invokes 18th century law to declare invasion by gangs and speed deportations

Just for historical context, the US Constitution is an 18th century document, and we see it invoked day in and day out.

Also interesting that supposedly activist weekend judges can “pre”block things related to our national security.

The White House has already designated Tren de Aragua a terrorist organization and is preparing to move about 300 people it identifies as members of the gang to detention in El Salvador.

What's the argument against deporting terrorists and gang members?

*the Dems were bringing daily millions of people.*

--you are massively exaggerating the figures.

Not me.

https://youtu.be/qN8EBQxgEkU?si=j3TS2A9XrGl60T8Q

That link also does not mention your claim of "daily millions".

It is possible to admit you exaggerated for rhetorical purposes, you know. Like Trump does. Daily.

Who anywhere wants illegal criminal gang members running amuck on their streets? DJT just doing what he promised on the campaign trail and why he was elected.

How can anyone support anything other than restoring law and order? It's Common Sense DJT promised.

It seems many here view DJT as the problem = WEIRD

Most Americans want illegals, especially criminal gang members, removed immediately from the US and thus support the Trump Admin's efforts to do so.

Again, WHO wants illegal alien criminal gangs on their streets? Citizens of all countries want criminals off their streets, whether citizens or not.

Most Americans want illegals, especially criminal gang members, removed immediately from the US and thus support the Trump Admin's efforts to do so.

And that’s all we want and it’s the absolute right thing for ANY sovereign nation to do.

Who anywhere wants illegal criminal gang members running amuck on their streets? DJT just doing what he promised on the campaign trail and why he was elected.

How can anyone support anything other than restoring law and order? It's Common Sense DJT promised.

It seems many here view DJT as the problem = WEIRD

The Democrats are angry because there is no way to stop this, many of the sanctuary cities are now forced to comply with this new DOJ and many of the migrant gangs that exist are now being justifiably targeted, arrested and deported, despite some of the legal challenges the Dems are trying to throw at this administration, it may slow them down for awhile, but it’s not stopping them, since they have no power Congressionally, the courts are the Dems last, but fading hope.

What's the argument against deporting terrorists and gang members?

There's no argument against that of course. But there is an argument against designating asylum seekers as "gang members" in order to deport them.

There's no argument against that of course. But there is an argument against designating asylum seekers as "gang members" in order to deport them.

Bottom line, illegal is illegal, once it has been established that “asylum seekers” are exactly who they say they are, they should be allowed to stay as long as they abide by all of our laws and guidelines, but that needs to be carefully sorted out, but do they have a right to stay, they do not not, the U.S. is not constitutionally obligated to grant anyone asylum if they see certain individuals as a threat to the nation.

But there is an argument against designating asylum seekers as "gang members" in order to deport them.

so knowing this, all gang members just claim asylum.

we are getting rid of the actual gang members and you out here making loopholes for them to stay.

cause you want crime now. That you can blame on Trump.

MS 13 is the name of the El Salvador gang, that originated in California.....

I'm surprised Trump hasn't offered all these violent gang members jobs working security for MAL, Bedminster, and Westchester...

They could join all the other illegal immigrant maids, butlers, and groundskeepers that have been employed there for years...

In a proclamation released just over an hour before Boasberg's hearing,

amazing service isn’t it? This activist judge needs an extra bonus from ActBlue funding.

accepts a Saturday lawsuit already created in advance, reviews it, researches the law, decides, creates a ruling and even demands that any planes in the air turn around.

All within 1 hour.

But there is an argument against designating asylum seekers as "gang members" in order to deport them.

Where is this issue expressed in the article?

There's no neutrality. There's no middle ground.

exactly! Zero.

none of this “of course I don’t support violent illegal gangs but….”

there is no “but” here.

why are so many “asylum seekers” these days fully tatted gang age males?

one is either on Trump's side or is on the illegal-alien criminal gangs' side.

There's no neutrality. There's no middle ground.

You're right. I should have realized that earlier. Everything is zero sum.

why are so many “asylum seekers” these days fully tatted gang age males?

Good question.

And why are so many of them escaping from lunatic asylums?