White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller defended President Trump’s decision to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport illegal alien members of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang. A federal district judge, James E. Boasberg maintained that the deportations were unlawful.
Miller responded that the Alien Enemies Act has been on the books, and upheld, for 200 tears. Specifically, the Supreme Count in 1948 upheld its application for the kind of deportations that President Trump ordered. This interpretation, he noted is “settled law,” which is not subject to the oversight of lower courts.
Miller added that “Tren de Aragua is arguably the most ruthless, violent, menacing gang now designated as terrorists. . . . What this judge tried to do would have meant if this ruling was accepted that a single district court judge can direct the movements of every single aircraft conducting every single deportation of every single criminal and terrorist in the United States, it would collapse the entire immigration enforcement system.”
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