Activist Judge Orders Flight Deportation Of Illegal Gang Members Halted

A federal judge barred President Donald Trump on Saturday from using a wartime powers act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members without a hearing, ordering the administration to turn around any planes that had already taken off after the Alien Enemies Act quietly went into effect.

Trump signed a proclamation Friday to deploy the Alien Enemies Act of 1789 for the first time since World War II to swiftly remove Venezuelansallegedly involved in the transnational gang known as Tren de Aragua. The act has been used only three times before to bar citizens of hostile enemy governments from the United States, and only during a declared war. The White House kept the proclamation under wraps until after advocates for immigrants sued Saturday, fearing he was already sweeping immigrants out of the country.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt claimed immigration officials had “arrested nearly 300 Tren de Aragua terrorists” over the weekend and sent them to El Salvador. The country’s president, Nayib Bukele, said that 238 members of the transnational Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua and 23 members of the Salvadoran MS-13 gang had already arrived in El Salvador and were in his custody, with a social media post responding to the judge’s ruling that said “Oopsie, too late,” followed by a laughing emoji.

The lawsuits were filed before the proclamation had been issued. These criminals who’ve contributed nothing but fear and a rise in crime in the communities they landed in don’t, according to all the bleeding heart organizations advocating for them, deserve to be deported. It’s just amazing to me that criminals are coddled and their crimes are excused.

Then again, many organizations involved were the same that were totally fine with all the George Floyd riots, the Portland CHAZ crap, and have been completely fine with the non-existent borders for the last four years.

Trump flying a planeload of foreign terrorists out of the country: Illegal

Biden flying planeloads of illegals into the country: No problem pic.twitter.com/fjcbWjG2hu

— Western Lensman (@WesternLensman) March 16, 2025

They along with the media – even local media (hello 9News in Denver!), plus city and state governments (Aurora, Boston, New York, MA) have done their level best to keep illegal criminals here in the U.S. instead of deporting them. 

And now we have an activist judge, James Boasberg, with an interesting history involving Russia collusion, trying to throw another wrench in the works. 

“A brief delay in their removal does not cause the government any harm,” he said, noting that the detainees will remain in government custody. 

What an asinine statement to make. ANYONE who commits a crime causes harm to the community and thus the government. It’s infuriatingly mind-boggling to me that Judge Boasberg and so many others willfully ignore that reality. 

Keep in mind, the Tren de Aragua is as vicious or worse than MS-13. They are involved with human, weapons, and drug trafficking. They commit crimes including murder, assault, and extortion. Yet those organizations and Judge Boasberg believe those criminals should STAY here in the U.S. and won’t cause any harm to American citizens!

It seems that Judge James Boasberg is completely ignoring the fact that Tren de Aragua, MS-13 and others were designated as terrorist organizations last month by President Trump. 

The notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, the brutal MS-13 organization, and half a dozen Mexican cartels have been designated as foreign terrorist organizations by the State Department.

The announcement, dated Feb. 6 and published in the Federal Register on Wednesday, prohibits Americans from providing “material support or resources” to the organizations — and allows the US to deport those involved in the gangs.

In addition to Tren de Aragua and MS-13, the cartels given the designations include Cartel de Sinaloa, formerly led by notorious drug lord “El Chapo“; Cartel de Jalisco Nueva Generacion, Carteles Unidos, Cartel del Noreste, Cartel del Golfo and La Nueva Familia Michoacana.

You come here to the United States illegally, you’ve committed the first crime. You commit additional crimes here, you absolutely should be deported. Period. 

Millions of people flooded across our border for four years. The Border Patrol and ICE were unable to, and even ordered NOT to vet the border crossers. Which has definitely led to high concern regarding who is in our country and what are they planning? We don’t even have a number regarding those who slipped through, the gotaways. 

Yet we have mayors from Boston, Denver, Chicago, and New York among others who claim their communities aren’t impacted by crimes committed by people here illegally. I’m sure they were thrilled about Judge Boasberg’s activist order, which the DOJ has immediately appealed. 

They are doing everything they can to keep violent, criminal, illegal invaders from being deported, an that should really bother people. https://t.co/32bBMHvky9

— Arthur Frelling Dent (@ArthurFrDent) March 16, 2025

It sure as hell bothers me. And it absolutely should bother everyone else. Except for those who are evidently VERY willing to provide aid and comfort to criminals. 

“The United States is not at war, nor has it been invaded. The president’s anticipated invocation of wartime authority — which is not needed to conduct lawful immigration enforcement operations — is the latest step in an accelerating authoritarian playbook,” said Skye Perryman, president and CEO of Democracy Forward. “From improperly apprehending American citizens, to violating the ability of communities to peacefully worship, to now improperly trying to invoke a law that is responsible for some of our nation’s most shameful actions, this administration’s immigration agenda is as lawless as it is harmful.”

Evidently Skye has been living under all the rocks for the last four years. 

The fact is, there ARE laws in the United States that govern the behavior of not only American citizens, but also those here illegally. You break the law by coming here illegally AND break additional laws must and should mean consequences including deportation must be the norm. Period. 

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