Ep. 1694 - Trump Invokes "Alien Enemies Act" for MASS DEPORTATIONS

**Michael Knowles** (0:00)
It is day 56 of Trump's second term, and the hits just keep on coming. President Trump just vaporized a top ISIS leader, invoked a law from 1798 to deport hundreds of Venezuelan gangsters over the impotent protestations of an Obama-appointed federal judge. And he announced his probable plans to annex Greenland. I'm Michael Knowles, this is The Michael Knowles Show.
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We'll get to that story a little bit later. But no, forget about even the McKinley era. We're going back to 1798, baby, because the libs have tried to stymie Trump from deporting illegal aliens. And not just the nice abuela who makes street tacos in your neighborhood who you like, not just the guy that mows your lawn that's an illegal alien, but he's a generally amiable fellow. We're talking about face tattooed, human smuggling, fentanyl dealing, absolute animals. Even those people, the liberal bureaucrats and judges will not let Trump deport. So Trump has invoked a law from the 18th century to make it easier to get these animals out of our country. Trump's order reads, here's just a little bit, it's obviously a long order, here's just a little bit of it. Trende Aragwa, TDA, is a designated foreign terrorist organization with thousands of members, many of whom have unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States. Put a pause here, how could you say they're conducting warfare? Well, they're killing people, they're breaking our basic laws, they're invading the country, they're poisoning people, even the ones they don't kill, they poison with fentanyl, they're smuggling human beings, they're running brothels, they're doing all sorts of harmful stuff. But would you call that warfare? Isn't warfare the kind of thing that occurs between two nations? Or at the very least between a terrorist organization and a national government, not just street crime, not just prostitution, not just murder? Well, Trump explains, TDA has engaged in and continues to engage in mass illegal migration to the United States to further its objectives of harming US citizens, undermining public safety, and supporting the Maduro regime's goal of destabilizing democratic nations in the Americas, including the United States. So what Trump is saying here is, these cartels are not just operating as ordinary street criminals, or even as ordinary organized crime. They are working with foreign governments. So they're working with the Maduro regime in Venezuela. They're working with hostile governments to undermine the United States. They're not working against those governments, that the governments are merely helpless to deal with them. They're actually working in concert with them. TDA is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States. No one could deny that. So the White House said they had 300 people who were in custody, who were identified as members of the gang, who could be deported soon. An Obama-appointed judge comes out, this guy, James Boasberg, and he says that Trump has to stop the deportations. He issues an emergency order, he says, any plane containing these folks, I love the folks he talk, these folks, you know, face tattooed, child-smuggling folks, that is going to take off or is in the air, needs to be returned to the United States, however that is accomplished. So even if the plane is about to land in Latin America, it's gotta go back up, turn around, go back to the United States, we will not allow you to deport these Venezuelan gangsters. The judge concludes, make sure it's complied with immediately. And then one of the greatest tweets ever posted on the internet comes out, this by way of the leader of El Salvador, Naib Bukele, who posts that headline and then just says, oopsie, too late, with a laughing face emoji. Because, as you might recall, us discussing on this show months ago, weeks ago, it feels like months in the Trump administration because so much is happening every day. President Trump has a deal with El Salvador. Naib Bukele, the greatest strongman in Latin America, said, we will take your prisoners. You don't know where to bring your prisoners. He even offered to take American citizen prisoners that we don't want to deal with, but the Trump administration said, okay, just the illegal aliens from Latin America, if we don't know how to deal with them, if our prisons are really light and easy and kind of a joke in the minds of these gangsters, and if we don't know exactly where to put these guys when we deport them, we're going to send them to El Salvador. We'll pay a small fee for that, because El Salvador, Naib Bukele, if he knows one thing, it is how to deal with gangsters, because he locked up, he undertook a mass incarceration program for face tattooed gangsters who had made El Salvador the most dangerous country on Earth. And when he locked them all up and humiliated them, then went to their cemeteries and destroyed their gravestones. This guy is not joking around, okay? When he did that, El Salvador went from being the most dangerous country in the world to the safest country in the Western Hemisphere. Pretty amazing. So just the message this sends, first of all, that Trump can say, yeah, judge, you sent out that order. Oh, too bad, actually, the plane is already in El Salvador, and Bukele is dealing with them. We'll get to the constitutionality of that, the legality of that in one second. But even just imagine, you're one of these gangsters. You're just any illegal alien, but certainly if you're one of these gangsters, your view is that the United States is a joke, that you can just go right up to the border. This is the Biden administration. They're inviting you in, you go to the border, you present yourself to Border Patrol. Border Patrol has to process you, and then Border Patrol lets you go. You don't even really have to sneak into the country anymore. You just walk up and say, hey, all right, I'm here, cuff me, you're going to uncuff me in five minutes, then I'm going to go into the country, I'm going to get lost, I'm not going to show up for my court appearance, and now I'm on the path to being an American citizen. I can do whatever I want, your country is a joke. And by the way, even if I get arrested, you guys are going to go really easy on me in prison, it's no big deal. The Democrats want to abolish prisons in the first place, but even if I go to prison, those prisons are a joke, no big deal. Why wouldn't I break the law? That's what the gangsters are thinking. And Trump comes out and he says, yeah, I just struck a deal with the strongman leader of El Salvador. And so what's going to happen, I think we have B-roll footage of it. When you land in El Salvador, you're going to be ferried into one of Bukele's prisons by Salvadoran military. And then you're going to be paraded around like the absolute animals that you are, not going to have any privacy, and you're not going to have the cushy luxuries that people in the United States demand as rights. You're going to be treated the way you deserve to be treated. That sends a message to anyone who wants to consider crossing our border illegally, which is illegal. It's a misdemeanor the first time, it's a felony if you do it multiple times, and it's greatly offensive to the American people, who, if they don't have the right to control their border, they don't really have any right of self-government, they don't have really any political liberty. So, the big question here is, can Trump violate this court order? Is this illegal? Is this unconstitutional for the plane to land in defiance of the court order? And you're going to hear a lot of prattling on MSNBC and CNN and all the liberal news channels about the separation of powers, checks and balances and the separation of powers.