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.
In a post on his Truth Social account on Saturday, the American president stated, “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!!!”
His criticism comes less than 48 hours after US District Judge and Trump’s appointee, Fernando Rodriguez Jr., 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.
In his ruling on Thursday, Rodriguez held that the 18th-century law can only be utilized when an “organized, armed force” is coming into the US.
He, therefore, rejected the Trump-led administration’s declaration that the law can be used against alleged members of the Tren de Aragua, TdA, gang.
