The Law of 1798 that Trump used to deport migrants

More than 200 Venezuelans, who are said to have been members of the gang, have been deported from the United States in the famous Mega-Jazz in El Salvador.

Of the 261 people deported, 137 were removed under the Law on Enemy Enemy Enemies, a senior administration official told CBS News, the US partner of the BBC.

This broad, centuries -old law was called by President Donald Trump. He accused the Venezuelan band Tren de Aragua (TDA) of “Performing, Experience and Threatening an invasion or predatory invasion” in the United States.

This move was criticized by the rights groups and came despite the temporary block issued by a judge. The White House said the judge’s order was not legal and was issued after the group was deported.

The Law on Alien enemies shall grant the President of the United States, which encompasses the powers to order the detention and deportation of locals or citizens of a “enemy” nation without following the usual processes.

He was passed as part of a series of laws in 1798, when the United States believes he would go to war with France.

The law states that “every time there is a war (…) or any invasion or predation is carried out, tried or threatened” against the US, all “objects of the hostile nation or government” can be “detained, restrained, secured and eliminated as foreign enemies”.

The law has been used three times before – all during a US -related conflict.

It was last summoned during World War II when people of Japanese descent – according to reports, numbering about 120,000 – were closed without court. Thousands were sent to internment camps.

During this time, the people of German and Italian descent were interned.

Previously, the act was used during the 1812 war and World War I.

Although this is the first time the act has been used by Trump, this is not the first time you mention it.

At his opening address in January, he said he would refer to the act of “eliminating the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks carrying a devastating crime in the US soil.”

In his proclamation on Saturday, Trump cited the formulation of the act, accusing TDA of threatening an “invasion” against the United States. He declares his members “responsible for perception, restrained, secured and removed as alien enemies.”

Trump’s decision was criticized by the rights groups. The US Civil Freedom Union (ACLU) has brought a case to suspend the remedy that the United States is not at war.

Speaking to the BBC News on Sunday, Lee Gellern, ACLU lawyer, said: “There is no doubt in our minds that the law is being violated.”

A federal judge tried to suspend the use of the law of deportation, but the White House said it did not have a “legal basis” and that the removal had already happened.

Responding to news, it encompasses the judge’s order, El Salvador President Naib Boukele wrote on social media: “Opsi … too late.”

Venezuela has criticized the use of Trump from the act, saying that “unfairly criminalized Venezuelan migration” and “provokes the most marked episodes in the history of humanity, from slavery to the horror of Nazi concentration camps.”

Catherine Ion Ebright, a lawyer at Brennan’s Justice Center, said in a statement that the use of Trump by the Law on Foreign Enemies is illegal.

“The only reason to refer to such power is to try to allow the detention and deportation of Venezuelli on the basis of their descent, not of any band activity that can be proven in immigration proceedings,” she added.