Trump Administration Cites Alien Enemies Act as It Plans New Extraditions

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Source: New York Times

Trump Administration Cites Alien Enemies Act as It Plans New Extraditions

By citing the act, the administration seems to be highlighting its aggressive posture without taking steps that might be deemed to violate a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge.


Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general, criticized the judge who had issued the temporary restraining order. Pete Kiehart for The New York Times

By Devlin Barrett
Reporting from Washington
March 24, 2025, 12:31 p.m. ET

The Trump administration said on Monday that it planned to extradite a handful of Venezuelan men to Chile after declaring them subject to the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime law whose novel use is the subject of a pitched court battle. ... In a statement, Justice Department officials said three men had been declared “alien enemies” and would be sent to Chile to face criminal charges there. The men are Venezuelan citizens, though one is also a citizen of Ecuador and another a citizen of Colombia.

Extradition is a long-established, frequently used process of sending accused criminals to face charges in another country. By citing the Alien Enemies Act, the Trump administration seems to be highlighting its aggressive posture on the contested legal issue without taking steps that might be deemed to violate a temporary restraining order issued by a federal judge.

Because the men are being extradited to face charges in a foreign country, their cases are different from the hurried deportations of more than 100 Venezuelans this month and will be the subject of a federal appeals court hearing Monday afternoon.

In the announcement on Monday, the administration again criticized the judge who issued that order, James E. Boasberg. “We would have already removed these violent gang members to Chile to face justice were it not for the nationwide injunction imposed by a single judge,” said Todd Blanche, the deputy attorney general. He added, “We hope common sense and justice will prevail.”

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Devlin Barrett covers the Justice Department and the F.B.I. for The Times. More about Devlin Barrett
https://www.nytimes.com/by/devlin-barrett

Read more: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/politics/alien-enemies-act-extraditions.html

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1. Planning over Signal, no doubt.

Total evil clown show.

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2. Are they officially in contempt yet?

[LetMyPeopleVote]

3. I listened to the oral arguments in the DC Circuit on the TRO

If the TRO is dissolved, the trumpies want individual detainees to each file habeas actions in the correct jurisdiction even if the government will NOT tell their attorneys where these detainees are held. The government wants to resume the deportation of these detainees without notice if the TRO is dissolved.

One of the judges in an earlier part of the oral argument noted that Nazis did get better treatment than the treatment afforded to these detainees
https://bsky.app/profile/nero-wolfe.bsky.social/post/3ll5fd53wtk2o

Link to tweet

https://abcnews.go.com/US/appeals-court-hear-arguments-deportation-alleged-venezuelan-gang/story

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit is hearing arguments over the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act last week to deport more than 200 alleged members of a Venezuelan gang to El Salvador with no due process.

"There were plane loads of people. There were no procedures in place to notify people," Judge Patricia Millett said. "Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act."

Judge Millett noted that alleged Nazis were given hearing boards and were subject to established regulations, while the alleged members of Tren De Aragua were given no such rights.

"There's no regulations, and nothing was adopted by the agency officials that were administering this. They people weren't given notice. They weren't told where they were going. They were given those people on those planes on that Saturday and had no opportunity to file habeas or any type of action to challenge the removal under the AEA," Judge Millet said. "What's factually wrong about what I said?".....

If the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals overturns Boasberg's blocking of the president's use of the centuries-old wartime law, the Trump administration could exercise the authority to deport any suspected migrant gang member with little-to-no due process.

Lawyers representing the Venezuelan men targeted under Trump's proclamation have argued that the president exceeded his authority by using the Alien Enemies Act against a gang -- rather than a state actor -- outside of wartime.

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4. But tsf said he didn't sign it....