Read what the government is telling the courts in the Alien Enemies Act case. They are saying that the President can declare that transnational crime is an invasion, and arrest, detain, or deport to a prison in a third country, any non-citizen, and that the courts cannot review this decision.
https://www.courtlistener.com/docket/69742127/01208720432/jg...
Lots of other countries have hunted down Tren de Agua in more aggresive ways. Venezuela, where they are from, had to literally use over 10000 troops to take over their headquarters in a raid. Obviously such an organization should be dealt with using such laws.
There is nothing stopping the President from using this enormous, unchecked power against his political opponents.
Read the motion I linked above.
Why would he do that? Manzanar is much closer and successfully tested even against citizens.
I’ve heard that interned Japanese-American did not like to bring the whole thing up afterwards, but it was clearly a mistake trying to memory hole that abomination.
If you keep trying to apply normal rational expectations to the current administration, you’ll always be ‘surprised’ at what they actually do.
Also, what do you mean by “political opponents”? Are non citizen Tren de Agua members voting or running for office? If not, how are they political opponents?
[1]: https://www.texastribune.org/2025/02/13/immigration-flights-...
[3]: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politic...
Why are they suddenly a huge problem to call for this drastic a measure? Cause Trump said so?
It's literally the executive tyranny of a king and absence of balance of power in full action which led to the founding of the United States of America.
Even if you're a criminal, last I checked the law, properly enforced, grants you the right to an attorney to prevent exactly this: unchecked executive power.
https://www.wgbh.org/news/local/2025-03-14/green-card-holder...
The words of Martin Niemöller, a Lutheran pastor who survived the concentration camp the Nazis put him in, seem appropriate at this point:
First they came for the Communists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Communist
Then they came for the Socialists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Socialist
Then they came for the trade unionists
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a trade unionist
Then they came for the Jews
And I did not speak out
Because I was not a Jew
Then they came for me
And there was no one left
To speak out for meThere are already laws to deport terrorists from the US. The thing is, since we live in a land of law, unlike some other countries, you need to prove it in courts first. And the administration is more than welcome to do this (and in fact doing it, just like previous one was).
No, they aren't. "Invasion" means something considerably different. You're using the word Trump is using to justify his actions, but word doesn't actually fit the situation.
Fundamentally, the problem is that the situation does not justify Trump's actions. He's using the "invasion" word to try to paper over that, but as I said, it doesn't actually fit.