Federal judge rules Trump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua terrorists: 'Unlawful'



President Donald Trump issued a proclamation on March 15 invoking the Alien Enemies Act and declaring that Tren de Aragua is "a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization" aligned with the Venezuelan Maduro regime that "is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States."

"I proclaim that all Venezuelan citizens 14 years of age or older who are members of TdA, are within the United States, and are not actually naturalized or lawful permanent residents of the United States are liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as Alien Enemies," added Trump.

A federal judge ruled Thursday that President Donald Trump's invocation of the AEA through the proclamation was "unlawful" and barred the Trump administration from using it against Venezuelan aliens in the court's judicial district.

The administration deported at least 137 Venezuelan aliens under the law on March 15.

'The Proclamation does not suggest that they have done so through an organized armed attack.'

While claiming at the outset that neither "the Court nor the parties question the Executive Branch's authority and responsibility to enforce federal laws," U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. appears to have done just that.

The judge indicated that Trump's March 15 proclamation satisfactorily placed responsibility for Tren de Aragua's actions in the U.S. on the Venezuelan government — precluding the need to determine whether the terrorist gang represents a foreign nation or government. Rodriguez noted, however, that the activities of the terrorist gang inside the U.S. "do not fall within the plain, ordinary meaning of 'invasion' or 'predatory incursion' for the purposes of the AEA."

While Tren de Aragua terrorists might have illegally entered the nation, "harmed lives in the United States and engage in crime, the Proclamation does not suggest that they have done so through an organized armed attack, or that Venezuela has threatened or attempted such an attack through TdA members," wrote the judge.

Rodriguez concluded that "the historical record renders clear that the President's invocation of the AEA through the Proclamation exceeds the scope of the statute and is contrary to the plain, ordinary meaning of the statute's claims."

While numerous courts, including the U.S. Supreme Court, have blocked the Trump administration's deportations under the AEA, Rodriguez is reportedly the first judge to have reached a final decision on the merits.

The American Civil Liberties Union, which brought the lawsuit with the ACLU of Texas to keep suspected foreign terrorists from being deported, celebrated the decision.

ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt said in a statement, "Congress never meant for this 18th-century wartime law to be used this way. This is a critically important decision that prevents more people from being sent to the notorious CECOT prison."

Reuters indicated that neither the White House nor the Department of Justice responded to its requests for comment.

On Thursday, Rodriguez also allowed Venezuelans targeted for deportation under the AEA to proceed with a class-action lawsuit against the Trump administration, reported WFIN.com.

"The unusual circumstances of this case present a compelling justification to utilize a procedure equivalent to a class action authorized by Rule 23," wrote Rodriguez.

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Illegal aliens aren’t just ‘guests’ — they’re future voters



After visiting a nearby resort filled with opulent wokesters, I couldn’t help but notice the signs proclaiming, “Love, not hate, makes America great.” I suspect the signs were meant to remind us of Donald Trump’s supposed nastiness for deporting as many as 50,000 illegal immigrants — most with criminal records. According to the left, such a policy makes Trump a fascist — maybe even the latest incarnation of Hitler.

A "nicer" leader, we’re told, would allow these illegal immigrants — including convicted rapists and other lowlifes — to remain in the country, at least until they exhausted multiple judicial appeals or committed a few more crimes. Why stop there? Let them vote in local elections, receive public assistance, education, and health care. After all, they supposedly enrich our society — or so Democrats insist, as they work tirelessly to provide all these forms of taxpayer-funded hospitality.

When virtue signalers clutch their pearls over Trump’s treatment of ‘nice illegal rapists,’ I have to wonder if they’re playing dumb.

But why did Democratic presidents we’re supposed to venerate — Bill Clinton and Barack Obama — get a free pass for far harsher deportation records? Clinton expelled close to a million illegal aliens with minimal judicial involvement, even boasting about his deportations during his re-election campaign. Obama, the left’s beloved heartthrob, threw out over four million illegal immigrants, aided by Trump’s current border czar Tom Homan, all without major interference from Democratic-appointed judges.

Compared to Clinton and Obama, Trump’s deportation numbers look paltry, especially given the legal and media warfare waged against him.

Even as recently as 2006, Sen. Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) — now screaming about Trump’s “cruelty” — eagerly pushed for building a border wall. Thirty years ago, few Democratic senators would have voted against it. Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.), back then, warned against flooding the country with unskilled foreign labor that would hurt America’s most vulnerable workers. Obama himself praised tougher immigration controls. In 2006, Democrats still held some loyalty to their working-class base. They understood that saturating American communities with third world lumpenproletariat — not to mention foreign gangs — would devastate the working class.

That was before Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-N.Y.), Pete Buttigieg, Rep. Jasmine Crockett (D-Texas), and Rachel Levine became the faces of the rebranded Democratic Party.

Since then, both national parties have swapped electoral bases. Republicans moved away from country-club elites and realigned with the white — and increasingly Hispanic — working class. Democrats abandoned their traditional blue-collar support to embrace progressive white women, the LGBTQ lobby, government bureaucrats, black militants, and now, the cause of illegal immigrants.

For Democrats, the strategy is simple: expand the non-working-class base. Biden’s administration opened the border to as many as 10 million illegal aliens, and anyone with a functioning brain can see why.

Yet, when virtue signalers clutch their pearls over Trump’s treatment of “nice illegal rapists,” I have to wonder if they’re playing dumb. Do they really not know why their party flooded the country with illegal aliens? Do they honestly think slogans about "love" explain why Democrats fight tooth and nail to keep even convicted criminals from deportation?

Every illegal immigrant represents a potential future Democratic voter. If Trump’s administration was allowed to make moral distinctions among the "undocumented," Democrats might lose too many future loyalists. Better, from their view, to defend even a wife-beating, MS-13-affiliated “Maryland man” than risk losing tomorrow’s votes.

Perhaps I’m being unfair. Maybe the Democratic cheering squad doesn’t know — or care — how radically its party reversed itself on immigration. Maybe leftists assume their Democratic heroes always held the same radical social views as Tim Walz and Hakeem Jeffries.

Most live in the present, parroting whatever slogans the media and party elites hand them. If journalists and historians hide the truth, these activists show little curiosity to uncover it.

Meanwhile, the media and judicial attacks on Trump’s supposedly “Nazi-like” immigration policies continue to erode public support. Trump now polls negatively even on immigration, the very issue that propelled him into the White House.

If this delusion holds, Democrats may succeed in securing nearly all of their future voters.

Kilmar Abrego Garcia's wife accused of dating 'gang member' by ex-boyfriend, who feared for his children's lives



The wife of Kilmar Abrego Garcia, the illegal immigrant alleged to be wrongfully removed from the United States, was accused by a former lover of dating a gang member, newly unearthed documents show.

Abrego Garcia’s wife, Jennifer Vasquez Sura, has argued that he is not a member of MS-13, a gang from El Salvador, despite previous indications by law enforcement.

As reported by New York Post's Jennie Taer, new documents have been uncovered that showed the father of two of Vasquez Sura's children accused her of dating a gang member in a court petition in 2018.

The ex-lover, named Edwin Trejo Ramos, filed a motion and affidavit for an emergency hearing for custody in Prince George’s County Circuit Court in Maryland.

The motion was against Vasquez Sura and alleged in broken English that she "try to kill herself" and left their kids with an 11-year-old babysitter.

In more broken English, Ramos said that his kids' lives were in danger because Vasquez Sura was "dating a gang member."

Underneath that claim, Ramos said he knew the facts to be true because he "was there, and the police was there too."

Abrego Garcia and Vasquez Sura reportedly met in 2016 and moved in together in 2018. While the timeline of the relationship suggests the petition could have referred to Abrego Garcia, that fact has not be confirmed.

According to the New York Post, Ramos is currently incarcerated in Maryland.

Democrats have argued that Abrego Garcia was wrongfully deported, partially on the basis that he was not and is not a member of MS-13.

Police reports from 2019 dispute this, as that March, Abrego Garcia was detained with three other men in a Home Depot parking lot while looking for day labor work. As reported by Fox Baltimore, the men were arrested and questioned about gang ties.

A Hyattsville City police officer recognized one of the men as a known member of MS-13, and the local gang unit said they had "reasonable suspicion" that the men were involved in gang activity.

"Detectives had reasonable suspicion, based upon their training and experience, three of the four men, including Kilmar Abrego Garcia, displayed traits associated with MS-13 gang culture," a statement from the Prince George's County Police Department read.

The report also stated that Abrego Garcia was wearing gang clothing that "represents that they are a member in good standing with MS-13."

A "reliable source of information" said Abrego Garcia was a member of the "Westerns" clique of the gang from upstate New York.

Abrego Garcia has denied the allegations, and he and his wife married while he was in custody in June 2019.

Despite Abrego Garcia being in the United States illegally, his supporters point to a stay order that kept him in the country in 2019.

Per Lawfare Media, immigration Judge David Jones ruled in October 2019 that Abrego Garcia should not be sent back to El Salvador due to a credible fear of persecution, as Abrego Garcia claimed a violent Salvadoran gang, Barrio 18, was extorting money from his family.

A long series of claims exists about Abrego Garcia's alleged persecution from the other gang, but the Trump administration has claimed that Barrio 18 is no longer a threat in El Salvador due to the crackdown on gang culture in the country. The administration has also affirmed that Abrego Garcia is an illegal immigrant and has no right to stay in the country, either.

At the same time, the administration has pointed out that the tattoos on Abrego Garcia's knuckles are alleged to be MS-13 code.

'After surviving domestic violence in a previous relationship, I acted out of caution ...'

In 2021, Vasquez Sura filed a temporary protective order against Abrego Garcia that claimed he punched and scratched her, which left her bleeding. She alleged that her husband later ripped her shorts and shirt, gave her a "purple eye" in August 2020, and hit her with his work boot in November 2020.

"After surviving domestic violence in a previous relationship, I acted out of caution after a disagreement with Kilmar by seeking a civil protective order in case things escalated," Vasquez Sura said in a statement. "We were able to work through this situation privately as a family, including by going to counseling."

She added, "Our marriage only grew stronger in the years that followed. No one is perfect, and no marriage is perfect."

During a recent interview, Vasquez Sura refused to answer a question about the protective order.

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Trump as ‘deporter in chief’? The real numbers might shock you



Former MSNBC host Chris Matthews, in an interview with CNN’s Jim Acosta, compared Trump’s immigration policies to Adolf Hitler’s Holocaust. He claimed that Hitler didn’t bother with German law — he just hauled people off to death camps in Poland and Hungary. Apparently, that’s what Trump is doing now by deporting MS-13 gang members to El Salvador.

Symone Sanders took it a step further. The MSNBC host suggested that deporting gang-affiliated noncitizens is simply the first step toward deporting black Americans. I’ll wait while you try to do that math.

The debate is about control — weaponizing the courts, twisting language, and using moral panic to silence dissent.

Media mouthpieces like Sanders and Matthews are just the latest examples of the left’s Pavlovian tribalism when it comes to Trump and immigration. Just say the word “Trump,” and people froth at the mouth before they even hear the sentence. While the media cries “Hitler,” the numbers say otherwise. And numbers don’t lie — the narrative does.

Numbers don’t lie

The real “deporter in chief” isn’t Trump. It was President Bill Clinton, who sent back 12.3 million people during his presidency — 11.4 million returns and nearly 900,000 formal removals. President George W. Bush, likewise, presided over 10.3 million deportations — 8.3 million returns and two million removals. Even President Barack Obama, the progressive darling, oversaw 5.5 million deportations, including more than three million formal removals.

So how does Donald Trump stack up? Between 2017 and 2021, Trump deported somewhere between 1.5 million and two million people — dramatically fewer than Obama, Bush, or Clinton. In his current term so far, Trump has deported between 100,000 and 138,000 people. Yes, that’s assertive for a first term — but it's still fewer than Biden was deporting toward the end of his presidency.

The numbers simply don’t support the hysteria.

Who's the “dictator” here? Trump is deporting fewer people, with more legal oversight, and still being compared to history’s most reviled tyrant. Apparently, sending MS-13 gang members — violent criminals — back to their country of origin is now equivalent to genocide.

It’s not about immigration

This debate stopped being about immigration a long time ago. It’s now about control — about weaponizing the courts, twisting language, and using moral panic to silence dissent. It’s about turning Donald Trump into the villain of every story, facts be damned.

If the numbers mattered, we’d be having a very different national conversation. We’d be asking why Bill Clinton deported six times as many people as Trump and never got labeled a fascist. We’d be questioning why Barack Obama’s record-setting removals didn’t spark cries of ethnic cleansing. And we’d be wondering why Trump, whose enforcement was relatively modest by comparison, triggered lawsuits, media hysteria, and endless Nazi analogies.

But facts don’t drive this narrative. The villain does. And in this script, Trump plays the villain — even when he does far less than the so-called heroes who came before him.

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Disney actor admits to 'fear for deportation' — takes shot at Trump supporters over Gulf of America



Disney and "Star Wars" actor Diego Luna took jabs at President Trump's supporters during an exchange with television host Jimmy Kimmel.

Things immediately got political for Luna during his appearance on "Jimmy Kimmel Live!" when the host asked him about the recent body of water name-change from the Gulf of Mexico to the Gulf of America.

"Are you guys also not calling it the Gulf of America or is that just us?" Kimmel asked the Mexican, who resides in California.

Luna replied, "I mean, who can take that seriously? Come on. That's ridiculous."

About two minutes into the interview, Kimmel, presenting himself as ever-sympathetic, said that things are likely "being taken very seriously back home" in Luna's home country right now.

Luna responded by saying he and his racial subset have a fear of being deported.

"We feel worried and sad. Not just the Mexican community here, but the Latino community and the fear for deportation and family separation. It's just too sad to see what's happening."

Of course, Luna's worries would only be applicable should his community members be in the United States illegally, but the actor immediately began to question the host as to whether he had a part in, or voted for, deportations.

"I didn't mean to lead you to a sad thing, but it's worth saying," Kimmel told his guest.

"But you did," Luna replied. "The voting thing, what did you do?"

"Did I vote?" Kimmel asked. Luna affirmed his question.

"Who do you think I voted for? I might have to come live with you!" Kimmel replied.

'It depends. It depends who you voted for.'

The segment pivoted to "Star Wars" toward the end, as Luna plays Cassian Andor in the Disney+ series "Andor," yet another spinoff from the once-beloved universe.

Kimmel had asked the actor if the Force has the ability to spread through adjacent people or if it is limited to the actor only.

The 45-year-old not-so-jokingly replied, "It depends. It depends who you voted for."

The crowd and Kimmel erupted in joy at the answer.

"Star Wars" actors have had a penchant for insulting their audience in recent years; star John Boyega even lashed out at the series' followers recently for what he believed to be racial preference.

Boyega made his comments in Apple TV+'s "Number One on the Call Sheet: Black Leading Men in Hollywood" documentary.

Per Fandom Pulse, the actor described the films as "a franchise that's so white that a black person existing in [it] was something."

The actor even went so far as to claim that fans are only okay with black actors in supporting roles.

"They're okay with us playing the best friend, but once we touch their heroes, once we lead, once we trailblaze, it's like, 'Oh my God, it's just a bit too much! They're pandering!'"

Boyega's remarks ended up seeming contradictory, given that he complained that when black actors are included in the movies, they are "scattered in" and tokenized.

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