{"id":36150,"date":"2025-03-16T06:49:58","date_gmt":"2025-03-16T06:49:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/alien-enemies-act-what-is-it-and-can-trump-use-it-to-deport-gang-members\/"},"modified":"2025-03-16T06:49:58","modified_gmt":"2025-03-16T06:49:58","slug":"alien-enemies-act-what-is-it-and-can-trump-use-it-to-deport-gang-members","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/alien-enemies-act-what-is-it-and-can-trump-use-it-to-deport-gang-members\/","title":{"rendered":"Alien Enemies Act: what is it and can Trump use it to deport gang members?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Using the 227-year-old law to argue a Venezuelan gang\u2019s activities amount to an invasion is \u2018unprecedented\u2019, according to the Congressional Research Service<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/15\/trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations\">Judge blocks Trump from using 18th-century wartime act for deportations<\/a> <\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since the second world war, granting himself sweeping powers under a centuries-old law to deport people associated with a Venezuelan gang. Hours later, a federal judge <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/15\/trump-alien-enemies-act-deportations\">halted deportations<\/a> under the US president\u2019s order.<\/p>\n<p>The act is a sweeping wartime authority that allows noncitizens to be deported without being given the opportunity to go before an immigration or federal court judge.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/us-news\/2025\/mar\/16\/alien-enemies-act-explainer-can-trump-apply-a-wartime-law-to-deport-gang-members\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Using the 227-year-old law to argue a Venezuelan gang\u2019s activities amount to an invasion is \u2018unprecedented\u2019, according to the Congressional Research Service Judge blocks Trump from using 18th-century wartime act for deportations Donald Trump on Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the first time since the second world war, granting himself sweeping powers under &#8230; <a title=\"Alien Enemies Act: what is it and can Trump use it to deport gang members?\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2025\/03\/16\/alien-enemies-act-what-is-it-and-can-trump-use-it-to-deport-gang-members\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about Alien Enemies Act: what is it and can Trump use it to deport gang members?\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-36150","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36150","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=36150"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/36150\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=36150"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=36150"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=36150"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}