To accelerate exile, US President Donald Trump announced the use of an 18th century law but a few hours later a federal court judge stopped the Trump administration from implementing it.
The Trump administration used the law that a gang of Venezuela is attacking the US and the administration has new powers to get its members out of the country.
Chief Justice of the US District Court James E Boseberg for Columbia district said that he needs to issue its order immediately as the government is already sending migrants to El Salvador and Honduras.
The US administration claims that these migrants may be renewed renewed and will be imprisoned in El Salvador and Honduras as part of Trump’s announcement. Al Salvador agreed to accept 300 migrants this week, which the Trump administration has declared a member of the gang.
Boseberg, while hearing the case filed by ACLU and ‘Democracy Forward’ on Saturday evening, said, “I don’t think I can wait anymore and I will have to take action.”
A few hours before the decision, Trump implemented the 1798 ‘Alien Animes X’ (Foreign Shatru Act), claiming that Venezuela’s gang ‘Train de Aragua’ was attacking America. The Act gives the President a comprehensive exemption regarding policy and executive action to expedite a large scale in exile in exile.
In American history, this act has been used only three times so far and that too has been done only during the war. Earlier it was used during World War II. At that time it was used to imprison German and Italian people as well as to collectively house Japanese-American nationals.
