Deporter In Chief

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**Sharon Reed** (0:30)
USA, USA, USA.

**Sharon Reed** (1:11)
Hello, everyone. Every time I see that intro, it just looks like healthy chaos. We're all over it, we're everywhere. And chaos is a good way to begin the show. John, how are you? Does this mean I get to be with you two times this week?

**John Iadarola** (1:26)
You do, in just a couple days, you'll be joining me on The Damage Report, holding it down on Wednesdays.

**Sharon Reed** (1:31)
Yeah, I love it. So welcome to the show, everyone. What do you say we get after it, John? Because so much, I feel like we could start every show like this in the Trump era 2.0. We begin with deportations. I think that's his favorite thing other than KFC. Over the weekend, the Trump administration sent hundreds of migrants to a notorious prison in El Salvador, despite a judge ordering their return. Friday, Trump secretly signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act. The act of 1798, it's only been used three times in American history. A law invoked during the war of 1812 and World Wars I and II requires a president to declare the United States is at war, giving him extraordinary powers to detain or remove foreigners who otherwise would have protections under immigration or criminal laws. It was last used to justify the detention. Boy, what an ugly chapter in American history. Japanese-American civilians during World War II. AP contributing to the reporting. Now Trump's proclamation rather said he would quickly remove Venezuelans age 14 and over, who allegedly belonged to the transnational gang, Tren de Aragua. Correct me if I'm wrong.
I don't know much about this gang, but apparently it's really bad. Since then, 137 people have been sent out to SICOT, aka the Terrorism Confinement Center in El Salvador. Salvadorian president, Naib Buquil, agreed to take in about 300 immigrants for a year at a cost of $6 million in his country's prisons. Over 100 other migrants were removed under other federal laws, including 23 people from El Salvador with ties to the MS-13 gang and 101 additional Venezuelan. Trump defended his use of the Alien Enemies Act, claiming America is at war. Listen.

**SPEAKER_7** (3:42)
There's been some criticism that the Alien Enemies Act is only been invoked three other times. They were all during times of war. Do you feel that you're using it appropriately right now?

**Donald Trump** (3:51)
Well, this is a time of war because Biden allowed millions of people, many of them criminals, many of them at the highest level. They empty jails out of the nations, empty their jails into the United States. That's an invasion. And these are criminals, many, many criminals, murderers, drug dealers at the highest level, drug lords, have people from mental institutions. That's an invasion. They invaded our country. So this isn't, in that sense, this is war.

**Sharon Reed** (4:26)
All right, if he says it must be true. But, US. District Judge James Boasberg on Saturday temporarily blocked Trump from using the act to swiftly remove immigrants without a hearing and instructed officials to return any airplanes carrying them to the United States. Washington Post filling in the details. His ruling came after lawsuits from advocates who said the administration was denying immigrants due process a fair concern considering the fact that the Trump administration has not identified those deported, provided any evidence. They are in fact members of Tren de Aragua, or that they committed any crimes in the United States, kind of key to this whole thing. The judge's ruling allegedly came as two planes carrying migrants were already in the air. He verbally ordered them to turn the planes around, but the Trump administration refused.
Ukeel reposted an article about the ruling with the caption oopsie, too late. It's really kind of sums it up beautifully, which Secretary of State Marco Rubio reposted. Trump himself sidestepped a question about whether his administration violated a court order while speaking to reporters on Sunday. I don't know, you have to speak to the lawyers about that, Donald Trump, US President declared. But others in his administration, including Press Secretary Caroline Levitt, said they did nothing wrong.