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To turn the plane around over international waters” and “come back with terrorists back to the United States, that’s not what this president promised the American people”.
By the time the order came, the plane was already over international waters, with a plane full of terrorists and significant public safety threats.”
Later on Monday morning, Tom Homan, Trump’s “border czar”, told reporters This is something that you need to make sure is complied with immediately,
he told the justice department, according to the Washington Post Let’s be clear: we are not at war, and immigrants are not invading our country
As discussed in today’s hearing, the Court ORDERS that… The Government is ENJOINED from removing” from the country any non-citizens in US custody who are covered by Trump’s proclamation about the Alien Enemies Act
The doomsday scenario for this country is the idea that you would just ignore a court order. At that point, there is no rule of law in this country. You're a law of the jungle. So, that's a thing to keep an eye on as to whether that in fact happened here."
Speaking on MSNBC, Weissman said There were violent criminals and rapists in our country. Democrats fought to keep them here. President Trump deported them."
Vice President JD Vance said on X (formerly Twitter) on Sunday The administration is invoking the Alien Enemies Act to effect summary deportations of Venezuelans who it *claims* are members of Tren de Aragua,
It is an overbroad authority that may violate constitutional rights in wartime and is subject to abuse in peacetime,
The Alien Enemies Act will make it easier for ICE to identify, arrest and deport taxpaying, long-settled immigrants who have built lives, families, and businesses here,
Foreign gangs, especially the TDA are a dangerous threat to the United States. By evoking the alien enemies act, President Trump is following through with his campaign promise to protect the citizens of the United States."
Tom Decker, a former U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) New York field office director, told Newsweek The invocation of the Alien Enemies Act is part and parcel of the Trump administration's attempts to weaponize the law to characterize all immigrants as criminal 'enemies' and to deprive them of fundamental rights. Further, the Trump administration's violation of a federal court order is profoundly alarming. The American public and the justice system will not be fooled by this cruel grandstanding."
President Trump is trying to use this act to get rid of transnational criminal organizations, predatory gangs."
John Farbrioctee, a former ICE field office director, told NewsNation The actions of President Trump made this country safer… that's what American voters voted for. That's our mandate, and the president is keeping his promise,
Who in their right mind, whether you're a judge or not, wants [to allow] TDA [Tren de Aragua], a recognized terrorist organization sent here by the Maduro regime, to create havoc, to unsettle the United States through the use of fentanyl to kill thousands of Americans, violence to American citizens, raping and murdering young women in this country…?"
Homan asked Monday on "Fox & Friends Whether or not the planes had cleared U.S. territory, the U.S. retained custody at least until the planes landed and the individuals were turned over to foreign governments,
the ACLU and Democracy Forward Foundation wrote A single judge in a single city cannot direct the movements of an aircraft carrying foreign alien terrorists who were physically expelled from U.S. soil,
The written order and the Administration’s actions do not conflict,
The court’s jurisdiction turns on the presence of the defendant in the United States, not the plaintiffs,
The President is not a king. January 20, 2025, was not a coronation. The President is not Napoleon … Federal courts have jurisdiction over the President,