American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) lawyers warn if President Donald Trump uses Alien enemy law No judicial supervision.
Lee Gelernt talks about reports on illegal Venezuelan immigration on Sunday on CBS Deported to El Salvador Prison Despite allegedly no gang tie or criminal record. This is immediately after the Trump administration invoked aid from the Foreign Enemy Act 1798, violent illegal immigrants considered members of the gang, including Tren de Aragua.
Gelernt, who is part of the legal challenge posed by the ACLU to the Trump administration, insists that the president has no right to send someone out of a prison in another country.
A prison guard is deporting from the United States to the terrorism lockdown center in Teckloka, El Salvador. (El Salvador Presidential Press Office via AP)
“Every government back in 1798 knows that this is the authority of wartime USA “Warring a foreign government. The government said, ‘Not only will we use it against criminal organizations, but you, the court, have no effect. You can’t tell us that we are breaking the law or stopping us.”
“60 Minutes” reporter Cecilia Vega reported other legal issues, amid concerns that illegal immigrants without gangs were sent to the prison without due process.
If the Trump administration continues to invoke the Alien Enemy Act in this way, Gail Ent warned that “everything is possible.”
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ACLU lawyer Lee Gelernt talked about the Trump administration’s deportation of illegal immigrants to El Salvador prisons in “60 Minutes.” (Screen shot/CBS)
“There are a lot of people who might hear what you are saying, these people don’t have papers. They should be deported. What do you say about that?” Vega asked.
“If they were here illegally without the right to stay, they could be deported back to their home country. If they committed the crime, they could be prosecuted, maybe spending many years in U.S. prisons,” Gelent said. “It’s not a problem, ‘Can these people be punished?’ This is the case with how the government started using wartime authorization, and it’s anything that’s possible.”
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The Trump administration acknowledged last week Misundered deportation Salvadoran Kilmar Abrego Garcia went to El Salvador Prison, although a federal judge ruled five years ago that he could not worry that he would become a victim of the local gang.
His request for asylum was denied, but he was protected by deportation and the ICE did not appeal the decision.
The Trump administration has admitted to mistakenly expelling an El Salvador man living in Maryland to a foreign prison. (El Salvador Presidential Press Office via AP)
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Trump administration says Garcia’s removal was an “administrative error” but defended the decision, accusing Garcia of being linked MS-13.
Fox News’s Brie Stimson and Bill Mears contributed to the report.
