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More than 200 Venezuelanians who claimed the White House that the gang members were deported from the US to the infamous Mega-Jala in El Salvador.
Of the 261 deported people, 137 was removed according to the Law on Aliens Enemies, a senior administration official for CBS News, an American partner of the BBC, said.
This broad, centuries -old law was called by President Donald Trump. He accused the Venecuelan band a moment de Aragua (TDA) of “committing, trying and threatening an invasion or a predatory” on US territory.
This move was criticized by groups of rights and despite the temporary block issued by the judge. The White House said that the judge’s command was not legal and was issued after the group was deported.
What is the act?
The Law on Alienation Enemies approves the President of the United States to order the detention and deportation of the natives or citizens of the “hostile” nation without following the usual processes.
It was adopted as part of a series of law in 1798 when the United States believed that they would enter the war with France.
The law states that “whenever a war is declared […] Either any invasion or predatory intrusion begins, tries or endangered “against the US, all” enemy nations or governments “may” arrest, refrain, secure and remove as aliens. “
When was otherwise used?
The law was previously used only three times – all at the time of the conflict involving the US.
He was last called in World War II, when people of Japanese origin – allegedly counted about 120,000 – closed without trial. Thousands have been sent to campsites for internation.
People of German and Italian origin were also interned at the time.
Previously, the law was used during the war of 1812 and the First World War.
What did Trump say – and what was the reaction?
Although this is the first time Trump has been using, it is not the first time he has mentioned it.
At his inaugural address in January, he said he would call the law to “eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks, bringing a devastating crime to US soil.”
In his proclamation on Saturday, Trump called for a law formulating, accusing TDA of threatening an “invasion” against the USA. He declared his members “the basis to be arrested, restrained, secured and removed as an alien enemies.”
Trump’s decision was criticized by groups of rights. The American Union of Civic Freedom (ACLU) sued to stop removal on the basis of not being in the war now.
In an interview with BBC News on Sunday, Lee Gellernt, a lawyer with ACLU, said: “There is no mind that the law is violated.”
The federal judge tried to stop the use of law to implement deportations, but the White House said it had no “lawful basis” and that removal had already happened.
Responding to a newspaper article covering the judge’s command, President El Salvadora Nayib Bukele wrote on social networks: “In general … too late.”
Venezuela criticized Trump’s use of the act, saying that “it is unjustly criminalized by Venezuelan migration” and “evokes the darkest episodes in human history, from slavery to the horror of Nazi concentration camps.”
Katherine Yon Ebright, an adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice, said in a statement that Trump’s use of the Enemy’s Enemy is illegal.
“The only reason for calling for such a power is to try to enable the detention and deportation of the Venezuelanians based on their origin, not to any gang activity that could be proven in an immigration procedure,” she added.
