Supreme Court exposes the deportation of Venezuelans – Diepresse.com
Trump had promised in the election campaign that it was massive against migrants. Now the Supreme Court decides that there should be further deportations of detained men from Venezuela. The United States is threatened with a constitutional crisis.
The Supreme Court of the United States has initially stopped the deportation of dozens of Venezuelans. The government should not show the group « Except for further order of this court » from the United States, the Supreme Court on Saturday with. Two of the nine judges, the conservative Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, contradicted the majority opinion. Those affected are said to be members of the criminal Venezuelan organization Tren de Aragua.
The Civil Rights Organization ACLU had submitted an urgency application to the Supreme Court on Friday to stop the immediately impending deportation of dozens of Venezoleers from the US state of Texas. According to media reports, they should be flown to El Salvador.
No proper procedure
No proper procedure had been granted to humans, ACLU said according to the court’s decision. How much time the Venezolans are now given to contest the deportation did not show from the statement of the Supreme Court. The US government initially did not comment.
In March, the government of US President Donald Trump had already deported more than 200 Venezuelans into the notorious Cecot high-security prison in Central American El Salvador. Tren de Aragua is a Venezuelan gang that is involved in drug trafficking, protection and human trafficking. The US authorities declared the gang to a foreign terrorist organization.
Controversial legal basis
In order to justify the deportations to prison, the Trump government relies on a controversial and hardly used law from 1798: the « Alien Enemies Act » allows the president to have people in war or an invasion of « enemy nations » without having to be detained and deported without regular procedures. The law was applied during the First and Second World War, especially for internment for Germans and Japanese.
The Supreme Court recently decided that the Trump government could initially continue with the deportations – however, the decision did not refer to the legality of the deportations based on the controversial law, but on procedural issues. The migrants must also be made possible to proceed legally against their deportation. The Trump government rated this as a victory and as a victory and as a confirmation that its procedure was correct in the matter. (APA/dpa)
