Fmr. U.S. Atty.: President Trump Is ‘Absolutely Right’ to Invoke the Alien Enemies Act to Deport Violent Gang Members

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TOWN: “It doesn’t matter this is a 1798 law. We’re using gobs of the First Amendment right now on your air, that’s an even older law. And so, the Alien Enemies Act, what the president did, is he very shrewdly intertwined TdA with the Venezuela government and the — is calling it a hybrid criminal state because Maduro and TdA have joined together in law enforcement, in military. The Maduro government funds TdA to come to the United States to bring cocaine, to sow discord, to engage in violence. And he has enacted the Alien Enemies Act, declared TdA a foreign terrorist organization, and ordered their removal. That’s what the AEA was meant to do. And so, the president has acted in his Article II authorities, and for a district Judge in Washington, D.C., and I hope you’ll ask me about all the mistakes this judge has made already, but for a judge to substitute his judgment for the president of the United States or the ACLU’s judgment, you might as well substitute the winner of the Publishers Clearing House’s judgment for the president.”