President Donald Trump just secured a major victory after the United States Supreme Court ruled that his administration can use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport illegal migrants.
In an unsigned 5-4 ruling, the nation’s highest court ruled that the Trump administration can invoke the historic wartime act to deport criminal illegal aliens, including Venezuelan gang members.
Trump had declared that members of the Tren de Aragua gang were terrorists.
The Trump administration’s border czar, Tom Homan, has been rounding up violent foreign gangsters across the United States.
The plan involves sending the gang members back to “hell hole” prisons in Venezuela.
However, the plans have been halted due to the efforts of Democrat-aligned activist judges.
The president’s efforts were paused on March 15 when Obama-appointed US District Court Judge James Boasberg issued an injunction blocking the deportations.
That injunction has now been lifted under the Supreme Court’s ruling.
The ruling now gives the president the green light to once again send dangerous gang members back to their home countries.
In a post on Truth Social, Trump hailed the ruling as a “GREAT DAY FOR JUSTICE IN AMERICA.”
“The Supreme Court has upheld the Rule of Law in our Nation by allowing a President, whoever that may be, to be able to secure our Borders and protect our families and our Country, itself,” he wrote.
Attorney General Pam Bondi similarly hailed the court’s decision as “a landmark victory for the rule of law.”
Bondi also blasted Boasberg as an activist judge who exceeded his powers.
“The Department of Justice will continue fighting in court to make America safe again,” she said in a social media post.
Trump had invoked the Alien Enemies Act last month to swiftly deport the members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
The move sought to speed up removals of foreign criminals who are threatening the safety of the American people.
Previously, the law was best known for its use to retern Japanese, Italian, and German immigrants during World War Two.
Trump has warned that members of the gang were “conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States” with the goal of destabilizing the nation.
However, activist Judge Boasberg pushed back.
Boasberg claimed that the Alien Enemies Act “does not provide a basis for the president’s proclamation given that the terms invasion, predatory incursion really relate to hostile acts perpetrated by any nation and commensurate to war.”
The liberal judge also said that he needed to issue his order immediately because the government already was transporting illegal aliens to be incarcerated in a notorious El Salvador prison called the Terrorism Confinement Center.
The Trump administration, though, has claimed that the flights had already left US airspace by the time Boasberg issued a written order.
Therefore, the Trump administration was not required to turn the flights around to return the dangerous illegal aliens, as Boasberg demanded.
Lawyers with the Justice Department dismissed the weight of Boasberg’s spoken order calling for any planes carrying deportees to be turned around.
In court documents urging the Supreme Court to overturn Boasberg’s order, the Trump administration also argued that Boasberg’s temporary ban undermined the president’s authority.
The Trump admin notes that the judge encroached on presidential authority to make national security decisions.
It said the judge had “rebuffed” Trump’s immigration agenda, including the president’s ability “to protect the Nation against foreign terrorist organizations and risk debilitating effects for delicate foreign negotiations,” Fox News reports.
In their March 28 application to Chief Justice John Roberts, lawyers for the Justice Department wrote:
“This case presents fundamental questions about who decides how to conduct sensitive national security-related operations in this country – the President, through Article II, or the Judiciary, through [temporary restraining orders].
“The Constitution supplies a clear answer: the President.
“The republic cannot afford a different choice.”
