The law of 1798. Trump used to deport migrants

More than 200 Venezuelans who stated the White House were deported from the United States to the notorious mega-skin in Salvador.

Of the 261 people deported, 137 were removed in accordance with the law on foreign enemies, said a senior CBS News Administration, an American partner of the BBC.

This wide, centuries -old law was summoned by President Donald Trump. He accused the Venezuelan gang Trag de Aragua (TDA) of “committing, attempting and threatening the invasion or invasion of a predatory” in the United States.

This step was criticized and came despite the temporary block issued by the judge. The White House was told that the judge’s order was not legal and was issued after the group’s deportation.

The law on foreign enemies provides the President of the United States, who carried out powers to order the detention and deportation of the natives or citizens of the “enemy” of the nation without performing ordinary processes.

It was adopted as part of a number of laws in 1798, when the United States believed to go into war with France.

The law states that “every time a war (…) or any invasion of either a predatory invasion is announced, tries, or threatens” against the US, all “subjects of a hostile nation or government” can be “detained, restrained, secured and removed as aliens.”

The law was used earlier only three times – all during the conflict involving the United States.

The last time this was summoned to the Second World War, when people of Japanese origin – reportedly numbered about 120,000 – imprisoned without trial. Thousands have been sent to the Board Camp.

During this time, people of German and Italian origin were also interned.

Before that, the act was used during the war of 1812 and the First World War.

Although this is the first time the act was used by Trump, this is not the first time he mentioned it.

According to his introductory address in January, he stated that he would cause this act to “eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks that bring a devastating crime for the United States.”

In his announcement on Saturday, Trump appealed to the wording of the law, accusing TDA of threatening “invading” against the United States. He announced that his members “are subject to detention, deterrence, consolidation and removal as aliens.”

Trump’s decision is criticized. The US Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) sued to stop the removal on the grounds that the United States was not a war.

Speaking in front of the BBC News on Sunday, Li Genle, Aclu lawyer said: “We have no question that the law is violated.”

The federal judge tried to stop the use of the law for deportations, but the White House stated that it was “without a legitimate basis” and that the removal had already happened.

Responding to the news article, which covers the judge’s order, the President of Salvador Nabi Bokele wrote on social media: “Naps … too late.”

Venezuela criticized the use of Trump in this act, saying that “unfairly criminalizes Venezuelan migration” and “causes the darkest episodes in human history, from slavery to the horror of Nazi concentration camps.”

Catherine Yon Ebraite, lawyer of the Justice Center Brennan, said that the use of Trump’s law on aliens was illegal.

“The only reason to cause such power is to try to include broad detentions and deportations of Venezuelans based on their pedigree, not on any gang activity that can be proven during the immigration process,” she added.