Alien Enemies Act, Legal US Immigrants Denied Entry, Deadly Storm System
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What is the impact of the deadly storm system in the Midwest and South?
You're so mean. A deadly storm system has moved offshore after tearing through the Midwest and South over the weekend.
Dozens of people died when tornadoes and high winds knocked out power and leveled homes and buildings. What will recovery look like?
How is the Alien Enemies Act being used against Venezuelans?
I'm Leila Fadil with A. Martinez, and this is a first from NPR News. The Trump administration deports hundreds of people who they accuse of being Venezuelan gang members using an obscure wartime law. Civil liberties advocates are raising a red flag.
It has never in our country's history been used during peacetime, much less against the gang.
A judge ordered the deportations to be stopped immediately, but some still happened.
Why? And two people living in the U.S. legally say they were detained and mistreated by U.S. immigration officials when they tried to re-enter the country. Stay with us. We've got all the news you need to start your day.
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What legal challenges are arising from the deportations?
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The Trump administration has deported hundreds of people who it accuses of being Venezuelan gang members.
This weekend, they were flown not to Venezuela, but to El Salvador. In an extraordinary move, President Trump relied on a rarely used law from more than 200 years ago to quickly expel them without hearings or due process. A federal judge is trying to stop this.
We're joined now by NPR's Adrian Florido. So let's start off with what the Trump administration used to justify their actions.
Well, on Saturday, President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act. It is a law from 1798 that authorizes summarily detaining or deporting citizens of an enemy nation. This is a wartime law. We are not at war with Venezuela, but in his order, Trump described Venezuela's Tren de Aragua prison gang as a force invading the U.S. And hours later, hundreds of immigrants his administration claims are in that gang had been deported to El Salvador. Here's White House Press Secretary Carolyn Leavitt on Fox News.
The president invoked this authority to deport nearly 300 of them who are now in El Salvador, where they will be behind bars where they belong rather than roaming freely in American communities.
El Salvador's president, Nayib Bukele, said that he would lock them up for a year, and he released photos of shackled men being unloaded from planes and having their heads shaved.
The ACLU sued to stop these deportations, and a federal judge agreed to temporarily block them. But what happened?
Yeah, it was an emergency suit from the ACLU on Saturday, and Judge James Boasberg of the Federal District Court in D.C. said that he didn't think the Alien Enemies Act authorized the immediate deportations. He told the government to turn back any planes that might already be in the air, but that didn't happen.
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Chapters
5 chapters
1
What is the impact of the deadly storm system in the Midwest and South?
0:08–0:23
2
How is the Alien Enemies Act being used against Venezuelans?
0:23–2:21
3
What legal challenges are arising from the deportations?
2:21–6:03
4
Why were legal US immigrants denied reentry?
6:03–6:35
5
What happened in the case of the doctor deported to Lebanon?
6:35–15:13
Speakers
16 identified
Tovia Smith 3 min
Ryland Barton 2 min
Adrian Florido 2 min
A. Martinez 2 min
Leila Fadel 1 min
Unidentified 1 min
Tanya Mosley
ACLU Attorney
Planet Money Host
Throughline Host
Pop Culture Happy Hour Host
Tate Reeves
Carolyn Leavitt
Unidentified Speaker (Brief Interjection)
Sarah Huckabee Sanders
Philip Johns
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