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Art Arthur

👤 Speaker
310 total appearances

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The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

You know, the Mexican cartels, we think about CJNG, the Jalisco New Generation cartel, Sinaloa, Gulf, some other smaller cartels. Those have now been designated, and the president could potentially use that same authority because his conclusion is those cartels have also invaded the United States. So stay tuned. There might be more flights taking off soon.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

You know, the Mexican cartels, we think about CJNG, the Jalisco New Generation cartel, Sinaloa, Gulf, some other smaller cartels. Those have now been designated, and the president could potentially use that same authority because his conclusion is those cartels have also invaded the United States. So stay tuned. There might be more flights taking off soon.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

You know, the Mexican cartels, we think about CJNG, the Jalisco New Generation cartel, Sinaloa, Gulf, some other smaller cartels. Those have now been designated, and the president could potentially use that same authority because his conclusion is those cartels have also invaded the United States. So stay tuned. There might be more flights taking off soon.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

That's one of the hooks. The other hook is this whole idea of invasion, that these groups have you know, that they are, you know, de facto political organizations and that they have invaded the United States. So that's the hook that the president's using. Again, it's a novel hook. I can't say that it's completely fallacious hook or that it has no, you know, legal standing.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

That's one of the hooks. The other hook is this whole idea of invasion, that these groups have you know, that they are, you know, de facto political organizations and that they have invaded the United States. So that's the hook that the president's using. Again, it's a novel hook. I can't say that it's completely fallacious hook or that it has no, you know, legal standing.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

That's one of the hooks. The other hook is this whole idea of invasion, that these groups have you know, that they are, you know, de facto political organizations and that they have invaded the United States. So that's the hook that the president's using. Again, it's a novel hook. I can't say that it's completely fallacious hook or that it has no, you know, legal standing.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

You know, this is definitely a power that, you know, At the time that the Alien Enemies Act was passed, we were concerned about pirates. We were concerned about smuggling. There were cases, you know, from Alexandria, Virginia involving smugglers.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

You know, this is definitely a power that, you know, At the time that the Alien Enemies Act was passed, we were concerned about pirates. We were concerned about smuggling. There were cases, you know, from Alexandria, Virginia involving smugglers.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

You know, this is definitely a power that, you know, At the time that the Alien Enemies Act was passed, we were concerned about pirates. We were concerned about smuggling. There were cases, you know, from Alexandria, Virginia involving smugglers.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

So, you know, this is, you know, definitely one of those things that your textualist judiciary is going to be very interested in exploring and determining whether this is an appropriate use of the power.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

So, you know, this is, you know, definitely one of those things that your textualist judiciary is going to be very interested in exploring and determining whether this is an appropriate use of the power.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

So, you know, this is, you know, definitely one of those things that your textualist judiciary is going to be very interested in exploring and determining whether this is an appropriate use of the power.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

Yeah. And, you know, that goes to one of their key talking points or one of their, you know, core beliefs. And that is that Donald Trump has authoritarian instincts, that he is, you know, a totalitarian and that if we don't fight for the rights of the least deserving individuals in this country, that eventually the rights of ordinary citizens could be impinged or impugned.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

Yeah. And, you know, that goes to one of their key talking points or one of their, you know, core beliefs. And that is that Donald Trump has authoritarian instincts, that he is, you know, a totalitarian and that if we don't fight for the rights of the least deserving individuals in this country, that eventually the rights of ordinary citizens could be impinged or impugned.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

Yeah. And, you know, that goes to one of their key talking points or one of their, you know, core beliefs. And that is that Donald Trump has authoritarian instincts, that he is, you know, a totalitarian and that if we don't fight for the rights of the least deserving individuals in this country, that eventually the rights of ordinary citizens could be impinged or impugned.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

But plainly, these are individuals who are foreign nationals. They have very limited rights in the United States. especially once they're outside the United States. And I think that that's overblown. But, you know, this whole concept that, you know, Trump has these authoritarian instincts, that he's different from any president in history. I served under six different presidents.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

But plainly, these are individuals who are foreign nationals. They have very limited rights in the United States. especially once they're outside the United States. And I think that that's overblown. But, you know, this whole concept that, you know, Trump has these authoritarian instincts, that he's different from any president in history. I served under six different presidents.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

But plainly, these are individuals who are foreign nationals. They have very limited rights in the United States. especially once they're outside the United States. And I think that that's overblown. But, you know, this whole concept that, you know, Trump has these authoritarian instincts, that he's different from any president in history. I served under six different presidents.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

And, you know, I can assure you that when it came to immigration, Joe Biden was the outlier, not Donald Trump. So, yeah, I mean, and Trump also inherited a very significant situation because of the Biden administration's immigration policies, where he does have to deal with a lot of immigrant criminals in this country. The immigration court system is slow.

The President's Daily Brief
PDB Situation Report | March 22nd, 2025: Trump’s Venezuelan Gang Deportations & U.S. Hits Back At Houthis

And, you know, I can assure you that when it came to immigration, Joe Biden was the outlier, not Donald Trump. So, yeah, I mean, and Trump also inherited a very significant situation because of the Biden administration's immigration policies, where he does have to deal with a lot of immigrant criminals in this country. The immigration court system is slow.