US President Donald Trump has hit out at judges after a recent court ruling barred his administration from continuing to use the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, AEA, to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members.
Trump, in a post on his Truth Social account on Saturday said: “Can it be so that Judges aren’t allowing the USA to Deport Criminals, including Murderers, out of our Country and back to where they came from?
“If this is so, our Country, as we know it, is finished! Americans will have to get used to a very different, crime filled, LIFE. This is not what our Founders had in mind!!!”;
Trump’s criticism comes less than 48 hours after US District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., an appointee of Trump, ruled that the AEA doesn’t allow the US president to quickly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members to a jail in El Salvador, extending an existing block.
Rodriguez had said in his ruling on Thursday that the 18th century law can only be utilized when an “organized, armed force”; is coming into the US.
As a result, he rejected the administration’s assertion that the law can be used against alleged members of the Tren de Aragua, TdA, gang.
In April, , accusing them of obstructing his immigration agenda after attending the funeral of Pope Francis in Rome.
Meanwhile, in recent weeks, or limited several of Trump’s executive actions pertaining to immigration and deportations.
