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The judges in the whole country rejected President Donald Trump's prevention by Alien Enemies Act. In the recent decision on this topic, a judge approved Trump's offer to use the law to deport the Venezuelan citizens that are members of Tren de Aragua – although she said that the government had to make more termination according to the law.

The US district judge Stephanie Haines, a Trump -appointment in the western district of Pennsylvania, wrote on Tuesday that Trump's proclamation describes a “predatory idea” by Tren de Aragua, a group that, as she emphasized, classified the government as “foreign terrorist organization”. She postponed Trump's claim that TDA is going towards the Venezuelan government.

The law of 1798 was previously only used during explained wars. The text of the crime says that it is for “is”[w]There is a declared war between the United States and a foreign nation or government, or an invasion or a predatory idea is committed by a foreign nation or government against the area of ​​the United States, tries or threatened against the area of ​​the United States. “

Although there is no war, other judges – including another Trump arrival in Texas – have rejected the argument that the President's proclamation meets the requirement that there is an invasion or a predatory idea. And a newly released state memo contradicts Trump's claim that the Venezuelan government directs TDA's actions.

At the beginning of this month, this Texan judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. Trump's appeal was illegal. He wrote that the terms “invasion” or “predatory intervention” on “organized, armed violence that penetrates the United States should refer to participate in a certain geographical area in behaviors.” Rodriguez adopted this context to Trump's proclamation and said that even if she had credited the President's description, she did not trigger the action.

None of these decisions affect the government's ability to remove people among the usual immigration authorities that were routinely used outside of war.

It is important that Haines also said that the government must make more termination to those who want to remove it according to the law. She said you needed an announcement of 21 days and the opportunity to be heard, with an announcement in both English and Spanish and if necessary.

Haines' decision is only valid in her Pennsylvania district, which is also a way for the decisions in the southern district of Texas, the southern district of New York and Colorado.

While the Supreme Court has completed preliminary legal disputes before the law, there is no nationwide standard because it did not decide on the underlying legality of Trump's appointment. But Haine's' judgment that can be filed with a federal court shows that judges can draw different conclusions on this topic, even if their outlier becomes. The fact that the judges come to different conclusions increases the use for the potential solution of the High Court on this question.

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