Trump lashes out at ruling that blocks use of wartime act to deport Venezuelans

The refusal of US courts to assist the presidential administration in deporting migrants contradicts the ideals of America’s Founding Fathers.

This harsh observation was made by US President Donald Trump, who shared his view via his social network Truth Social, Caliber.Az reports.

“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 post read, which was in response to the decision by a Trump-appointed federal judge stating that the US president cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan migrants.

According to the jugde’s ruling, Trump's use of the wartime power was "unlawful" and had been improperly invoked as it can only be applied when the US is facing an "armed organised attack", which was not the case.

 The law on which the Trump administration based their policy on was written in 1798 to allow the removal of non-citizens in times of war or invasion. The government was deporting Venezuelans to El Salvador on the basis they were members of the dangerous Tren de Aragua gang and "conducting irregular warfare".

By Nazrin Sadigova