WH Press Sec Karoline Leavitt tells Andrew Feinberg of TheIndependent, “Shame on you" after he asked her about #ICE's "#AlienEnemiesAct Validation Guide” which the #Trump admin FILED IN COURT that states for ICE to label a person a member of #TdA, they must:
1) determine they are a #Venezuelan & over 14, &
2) find 8 points on a scoring guide they made:
4 points for having alleged *gang* tattoos +
4 points for displaying gang "logos" or
"symbols"
That’s it.
Judge #Boasberg has set a hearing date for April 3 at 3PM to hear #Trump admin’s argument for why they shouldn't be held in #contempt for violating his order to turn the planes around that were *deporting* supposed #Venezuelan gang members to a prison in #ElSalvador w/o #DueProcess.
A federal judge has ordered the immediate release of a Washington-area #Venezuelan couple who contend they’ve been unfairly swept up in #Trump’s crackdown on Venezuela-based gang #TdA.
Luddis Sanchez Garcia, 33, & Julio Sanchez Puentes, 27, walked out of the federal courthouse in Alexandria, Virginia, Friday morning surrounded by supporters after US District Judge Leonie Brinkema declared there was no legal basis for their #detention.
#law #AlienEnemiesAct #immigration
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/03/28/venezuelan-couple-release-00258414
#Trump admin doesn't need to give notice to people it wants to deport, #DOJ argues
A federal appeals court has finished hearing arguments over whether to lift a judge’s #TRO against Trump’s use of a wartime authority to quickly deport alleged members of a #Venezuelan gang.
As the hearing came to a close, a DOJ atty told the court that he didn’t think the govt needed to give notice to individuals it wants to summarily remove under the #AlienEnemiesAct.
#law #immigration
https://www.cnn.com/politics/live-news/trump-news-03-24-25/index.html
The #Trump admin is citing the #AlienEnemiesAct in new #extraditions.
The Trump admin said on Monday that it planned to #extradite a handful of #Venezuelan men to #Chile after declaring them subject to the AEA.
In a statement, #DOJ ofcls said 3 men had been declared “alien enemies” & would be sent to Chile to face #criminal charges there. The men are Venezuelan citizens, though one is also a citizen of Ecuador & another a citizen of Colombia.
#law #immigration #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/24/us/politics/alien-enemies-act-extraditions.html?smid=url-share
Today “…the US
Court of Appeals [in DC]…will hear arguments on whether to stay a temporary restraining order…which is currently barring summary removals of alleged members of Tren de Aragua, a #Venezuelan criminal gang, under the #AlienEnemiesAct of 1798…While the government’s compliance or noncompliance with Boasberg’s oral order is…a live issue…today’s appellate court hearing is about…whether #Boasberg had jurisdiction to issue that order....”
| Lawfare https://www.lawfaremedia.org/article/the-upcoming-court-of-appeals-argument-in-the-alien-enemies-act-case #deportation
They were arrested during routine #ICE check-ins. Then they disappeared.
#Deportation proceedings are often shrouded in secrecy. But lawyers say the lack of information about the #Venezuelan migrants deported under the #AlienEnemiesAct is nearly unprecedented.
#law #Constitution #immigration #DueProcess #CivilRights #ChecksAndBalances #JudicialBranch #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #CoEqualBranchesOfGovernment #ConstitutionalCrisis #AbuseOfPower #Trump
https://wapo.st/4iVHPaN
#Intelligence Assessment Said to Contradict #Trump on #Venezuelan Gang
To invoke wartime #deportation powers, Trump asserted that #Venezuela’s government controls a gang. #US intelligence analysts think that is not true.
#FactCheck #TrumpLies #law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #CivilRights #AbuseOfPower #USpol
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/03/20/us/politics/intelligence-trump-venezuelan-gang-alien-enemies.html?smid=nytcore-ios-share&referringSource=articleShare&sgrp=p&pvid=21DD7CD1-6F5B-45F9-BC48-4DAA303CD5DD
The Bulwark’s Sam Stein interviewed #immigration atty Lindsay Toczylowski to discuss her client, a #LGBTQ #Venezuelan #asylum seeker, who disappeared after being detained by #ICE.
After the interview, Toczylowski received confirmation from the US government that her client was deported to El Salvador as part of the #AlienEnemiesAct sweep. Toczylowski says her client is not a Tren deAragua member & that ICE misidentified his tatoos.
#law #Constitution #DueProcess #Trump
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ly6YEkHHcX0
“That is based on a mountain of #racist statements made by both her & Pres Trump against #Venezuelan #refugees going back now for several years, calling them animals, calling them dirtbags, falsely claiming that they are people who are let out of prisons & let out of mental institutions & just broad, completely false statements that just restate racist tropes,” said Ahilan Arulanantham, one of the lawyers on the case & co-director of the Center for #Immigration #Law & Policy at the UCLA Law.
The suit argues that #KristiNoem & #DHS have no legal authority to undo a #TPS extension once it has been made — & that the #Trump admin’s actions are motivated by #racism, in violation of the #5thAmendment, which guarantees #DueProcess.
"'They used us,' the #Venezuelan activist Adelys Ferro told NPR. “During the campaign, the elected officials from the #Republican Party, they told us he was not going to touch #documented people. They said, ‘No, it is with #undocumented people.' In fact, both #Trump and Vice President #JDVance said they wanted to deport people legally allowed in the country. Some voters just convinced themselves their own groups wouldn’t become targets."
