The war on illegal migration
Trump's point man on the border Tom Homan promised that the Trump administration’s mass deportations will not stop despite a federal judge illegally blocking the president from invoking the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members without a hearing. The Trump administration flew roughly 250 alleged migrant gangbangers to El Salvador’s mega prison Saturday, where they were taken into custody by America's key ally in the war on illegal migration : El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele.
The gang members were treated appropriately in El Salvador:
Salvadoran police officers escort shackled alleged Tren de Aragua gangbangers deported from the US. via REUTERS
To evict migrants without a hearing, the administration cited the Alien Enemies Act. In addition to the deportation of gang members, the administration has indicated that it will contest a 20-day limit on how long child migrants can be detained.
The government deported Rasha Alawieh, a Lebanese kidney transplant expert at Brown University, over the weekend though she had a visa. She was deported because she attended a Hezbollah leader’s funeral during a trip to Lebanon.
The administration detained Mahmoud Khalil, a leader of pro-Palestinian protests, this month. Another student activist at Columbia, Ranjani Srinivasan, apparently warned by someone, fled to Canada when immigration agents revoked her visa and showed up at her home.
The administration may bring back the travel ban (now certified as LEGAI) only this time 43 countries may be on the list.
Trump is keeping his promise.
In other news:
Israel hit Gaza with a series of "extensive strikes" overnight Tuesday, vowing to open the "gates of hell" because Hamas has not released the remaining hostages. Israel's Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Defense Minister Israel Katz said the Israel Defense Forces is targeting Hamas terrorists throughout the region and will act with "increasing military force" against Hamas from now on.
Israel hits Gaza with 'extensive strikes,' killing over 400 and ending ceasefire
In his call with Vladimir Putin today, Trump will, in essence, negotiate how much territory Russia has to give up in order to get a peace deal with Ukraine.
After a standoff involving the police, Musk’s DOGE team entered the headquarters of the U.S. Institute of Peace, an independent agency, and evicted its officials who were refusing to leave.
The Department of Veterans Affairs has finally ended transgender treatments.
The president ended Secret Service protection for Hunter and Ashley Biden.
Trump privately told auto executives to prepare to operate under fair trade tariffs.
The administration asked 20 prominent law firms about their DEI policies in their recruitment, suggesting they could have discriminated against white candidates.
Harvard will offer free tuition for students whose families earn less than $200,000. (Are they going around the SCOTUS?)
A swath of the southern and central Plains faces severe fires with dry air and wind gusts of up to 40 miles per hour.
Suni Williams and Butch Wilmore, the NASA astronauts who have been stuck at the International Space Station for months, are headed back to earth thanks to Elon Musk.
Good morning and welcome to the news.
The question has been asked as to whether Columbia University consciously stacked its classes full of activists.
Rikki Schlott has a great piece about it in the NY Post today.
Columbia in chaos after seeking out social justice activists
JFK Files to be released later today
It's baffling as to WHY the left wants to keep criminals in the country?.
It's even more baffling how a "judge" can overlook law to support the lefts idiocy.
That's what happens when you support terrorists.
It kinda looks bad doesn't it.
Right now, the dems favorability poll number is at 27%.
The midterms are two years away.
I don't think this "kinda" looks bad. It is bad. And sadly they don't see the problem.
Like all the policies they support.
I get differing opinions on the amounts of legal immigration. But illegal immigration is just lawless anarchy. Amazing to watch democrats support that.
Trump's greatest skill is getting Democrats to support the most batshit crazy, unpopular things in order to oppose him.
Israel hits Gaza with 'extensive strikes,' killing over 400 and ending ceasefire
Even after Hamas threw a celebratory parade with the coffins of kids they murdered, left wing media still just parrots whatever talking points Hamas puts out.
Hamas says 400 plus were killed? Sure. Must be true.
That is an astonishing statement coming from someone in control of a federal agency.
More tyranny. For one thing, that's a wartime authority, and we're obviously not at war with Venezuela.
Why don't you guys who support all this extrajudicial shit just come out and admit to being enemies of the Republic? Hmm?
A "government of laws, not of men" per John Adams, is obviously something you oppose.
Do we not have armed forces deployed to Iraq and Syria fighting?
And?
From an article about the Alien Enemies Act (bolding mine)
The people in question are supposed to be Venezuelans, not Iraqis or Syrians. They're also supposed to be members of Tren de Aragua, but there's no way of knowing for sure because there was no judicial process and no official evidence presented.
It was a bogus use of the act, and we really have no idea who it's being applied to, just the 'word' of Trump and/or Homan.
Lets try something much more reliable than "an article".
For those who want to cry about it and keep criminals / terrorists in the country. Reality is, this is a legal stand and it's being enforced.
And what nation attacked the US on 9/11?
What do you think you're showing me there? Go ahead and post the text that disagrees with what I posted.
Huh? The Alien Enemies Act wasn't invoked then.
It doesn't matter we are still at war with terrorism.
I did.
They don't quite grasp that.
The Global War on Terror isn't an officially declared war, obviously. It's a non-literal moniker, similar to the War on Drugs.
The terrorists don't come from any one country, nor do they formally declare war.
That doesn't make it any less real.
Why don't you want security threats removed?
Actually, you didn't. I asked for the part that disagrees with what I posted.
What's the matter, can't find it? That's understandable, considering it isn't there.
But don't let that stop you from continuing to parrot lies about it that you probably heard on Trump TV or something. Nobody expects honor, integrity, or intellectual honesty from supporters of a criminal tyrant.
You don't actually think Congress made an official declaration of war on 'terror', do you?
Then read the links.
That is what it states on all my orders sending me to Afghanistan and Iraq.
It does as far as an official invocation of the Alien Enemies Act. You kinda need a particular nation state for that.
Who says I don't? That's not the issue.
The issue is Trumps disloyalty to the rule of law and potential violations of rights. There are perfectly legal ways to go about the various things he's doing, reducing the size of government included. Why can't he do things in a legal and proper way? He has the White House and both houses of Congress, for crying out loud. What's the problem?
Exactly ! He is a mental midget miscreant wanna be messiah gone wild, constantly acts like a bullying tantrum taking child.
There are acceptable ways to go about things under the rule of law as distinguished in our Constitution, that Trump thinks is toilet paper. What a POS he is.
I'll take that as an admission that you don't know what the hell you're talking about.
Looks more like your inability or willingness to read the links.
not on the day after St Paddys'
You know you can look this stuff up, right? The War on Terror had no official Congressional declaration.
That's your problem not mine.
I have no problem at all being my problem, do you ?
The act is only 3 sections long, with a single paragraph for each. It's not exactly an exhausting read. If you won't post the part or parts relevant to Trump using it the way he has, then I'm done here. I'm not playing this stupid game with you.
So look it up. Nobody is stopping you.
I think he has been doing things in much the same way Obama and Biden did.
The bigger question is why you support and sympathize with illegal aliens many of whom are mostly likely terrorists,
You do know that the SCOTUS has ruled on this, right?
In 1948, the U.S. Supreme Court upheld Truman’s use of the AEA and ruled that the law itself was constitutional (Ludecke v. Watkins, 33 US 160). Importantly, the high court stated that a president’s decision under the Act "precludes judicial review of the removal order." In other words, a judge cannot second-guess the president.
GREGG JARRETT: The law supports Trump's deportation of violent gang members, despite judge's errant ruling | Fox News
Leave it to you (and the people who voted your comment up, apparently) to completely misunderstand something.
The issue is the improper and unlawful invocation of the AEA during peacetime, denying non-enemy aliens due process of law.
What they upheld in 1948 (by only one vote, btw) was the continuing use of the act after the war, not an out-of-the-blue peacetime invocation of it.
The WW2 use of the AEA began during an actual war, and applied to Japanese and Germans because those were the countries we were at war with.
After reading through the opinions, including dissents, Ludecke v. Watkins was about the continuing use of the powers after the war had ended, not whether use of the act was valid in the first place, because having been invoked during an actual war with actual enemy nations, it was.
Trump is trying to invoke it in peacetime for use against individuals from a country we are not at war with, meaning they are not 'enemy aliens'.
And you would be wrong. Shockingly so.
Dig - if ya really wanna know which laws are being enforced, check out 8 U.S.C. 1300 series - all dealing with immigration and dealing with how to return ILLEGALS to their home of origin or to a country that will accept the ILLEGALS.
Technically, we don't need to parrot what the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 when we have the "NEW" laws on the books - that the Dems/Libs don't believe in enforcing either.
The issue here is about invoking the AEA during peacetime in order to summarily remove and imprison aliens in a third-party foreign nation without due process of law.
Don't tell me, tell Trump.
VP: "Last month, migrant crossings were down 94%, to their lowest number all time, and that happened just in two months of serious border enforcement... Last month, for the first time in over a year, the majority of job gains went to American citizens born on U.S. soil. "
Vance touts Trump wins at US-Mexico border as border crossings drop | Fox News
Didn't the left keep telling us that cutting crossings was impossible?
Oh ya, they needed that bill to secure the border. The bill that actually made it harder to secure the border.
Don't forget that the "bill" also included BILLIONS to Ukraine.
It had a lot tucked into it. Not much of it involved real border security, but they did find 3 Republicans to sign onto it.
I wonder if this actually made a single leftist think for a second. As we've seen play out on this site day after day, many parroted the "cutting crossings is impossible" and only a bill that would make things objectively worse would somehow help things. Now to even get to that point was, of course, demonstrates a serious avoidance of facts as Biden's actions to open the border were all public record.
But still, to have that nonsense so conclusively rebuked with irrefutable data the last few months should have caused some serious self examination and demonstrate the need to think critically rather than simply parrot Democratic talking points, I would think. Sadly, it doesn't seem to have had any effect.
It is clear who runs that party.
Today Chuck Schumer cancelled a book tour and went on "the View" to explain why it was better to keep the government open.
Mayor Eric Adams pulled in a sad $36,000 from just a few dozen donors over the last two months, it was revealed Tuesday — as questions swirl over his faltering re-election campaign.
The incumbent Democrat raised $36,121 from 42 relatively unknown donors between Jan. 12 and March 13, according to the latest campaign finance disclosures.
That’s chump change, especially compared to the Democratic mayoral primary frontrunners.
Socialist candidate Zohran Mamdani pocketed an impressive haul of $845,000 over the same period and ex-Gov. Andrew Cuomo, the leader in the polls, pulled in $1.5 million in donations since announcing his campaign March 1.
NYC Mayor Eric Adams pulls in sad $36K of donations as questions swirl over dying re-election campaign
Shall I explain the reason that one corrupt NYC politician sinks as another corrupt and derelict NY politician rises?
The difference is that the mayor has been associated with Trump and that is disastrous in shit city.
Just in:
The FBI extradited one of their “ten most wanted” targets, an MS-13 boss, from Mexico to the US this week.
The feds believe Francisco Javier Roman-Bardales is “a key senior leader of MS-13” and took him into custody Monday night after Mexican authorities nabbed him.
Javier Roman-Bardales
The alleged gang leader is now behind bars in the US, where he will face charges.
FBI extradites 'most wanted' MS-13 leader from Mexico