Well, well, well… looks like another day, another activist judge trying to keep dangerous criminals on American streets! Over the weekend, a federal judge frantically tried to block President Trump’s deportation of Venezuelan gang members by ordering ICE planes already in flight to turn around.
It’s becoming painfully obvious that Democrats and their judicial appointees are actively working to make Americans’ lives more dangerous and miserable. While ordinary citizens worry about violent crime in their neighborhoods, the liberal establishment seems hellbent on ensuring that gang members, including those from the notorious Tren de Aragua organization, can continue terrorizing communities across the country.
But President Trump isn’t backing down from his promise to secure our borders and remove dangerous criminals from American soil. In a bold move that has conservatives cheering and leftists clutching their pearls, the Trump administration proceeded with the deportation flights despite the judge’s last-minute intervention.
From ‘Fox News’:
A Trump administration official also confirmed to Fox News that the planes carrying the migrants were already outside of U.S. airspace when a federal judge ordered the planes to return.
Sorry, Judge, These Planes Already Flew the Coop
“We did not defy a court order. The order came too late, and illegals were already in international airspace,” a senior administration official told Fox News, with Leavitt adding that the order “had no lawful basis, was issued after terrorist [Tren de Aragua] aliens had already been removed from U.S. territory.”
A total of 261 illegal aliens were successfully deported to El Salvador, including 137 under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, 101 Venezuelans removed via Title 8, 21 Salvadoran MS-13 gang members and two MS-13 ringleaders described as “special cases” for El Salvador.
El Salvador’s President Trolls the Judge with Epic Video
El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele didn’t just accept the deportees – he celebrated their arrival with a dramatic video showing the processing of these criminals. The footage, shared on social media, showed heavily-armed Salvadorean authorities surrounding the alleged gang members, forcing their heads down, and transporting them into facilities one by one.
Bukele even mockingly featured an image of a New York Post story about the judge’s order halting the flights, writing “Oopsie… too late” with a crying-laughing emoji. In his post, Bukele explained that these deportees would be housed in his country’s “terrorism confinement center” for at least a year, adding that they would join over 40,000 other inmates already engaged in various workshops under the “Zero Idleness” program – a system he says will eventually make their prison system “self-sustainable.”
Trump publicly thanked Bukele for his cooperation and the dramatic handling of the deportees, writing, “Thank you to El Salvador and, in particular, President Bukele, for your understanding of this horrible situation, which was allowed to happen to the United States because of incompetent Democrat leadership. We will not forget!”
The deportees weren’t exactly model citizens, either. Their rap sheets included kidnapping, sexual abuse of a child, aggravated assault, prostitution, robbery and aggravated assault of a police officer. These are the “monsters,” as Trump called them, that activist judges apparently want to keep in American communities.
Supreme Showdown on the Horizon
The Trump administration is fully prepared for the legal battle ahead. “This is headed to the Supreme Court. And we’re going to win,” a senior White House official told Axios. At issue is the president’s use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which allows for the deportation of natives and citizens of an enemy nation without a hearing.
Trump’s border czar Tom Homan doubled down on the decision, making it clear where the administration stands on judicial interference with border security. When asked about defying the court order, Homan bluntly stated, “I don’t care what the judges think.”
The White House remains confident in its legal position. “As the Supreme Court has repeatedly made clear — federal courts generally have no jurisdiction over the President’s conduct of foreign affairs, his authorities under the Alien Enemies Act, and his core Article II powers to remove foreign alien terrorists from U.S. soil and repel a declared invasion,” Leavitt explained.
With more deportations planned in the coming weeks, it’s clear that President Trump is making good on his campaign promises to secure the border and remove dangerous criminals from American communities, regardless of obstacles thrown in his path by activist judges or opposition from Democrats.
Key Takeaways:
- A federal judge attempted to halt deportation flights of gang members, but the Trump administration proceeded because the planes were already in international airspace.
- El Salvador’s President Bukele welcomed the deportees with dramatic security measures, trolling the judge with a “too late” social media post.
- The administration is confident the Supreme Court will ultimately uphold the president’s authority to use the Alien Enemies Act to deport dangerous foreign nationals.
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