Donald Trump is determined that Venezuelans claimed to be linked to the criminal gang of Tren de Aragua should be mass deported.
Earlier this year, Trump decided to activate a law of war from 1798, which means that the president has the right to arrest, imprison and deport foreign citizens from countries that are considered to threaten the United States through war or invasion. The goal is to mass deposit venezuelans that are alleged to be linked to the criminal gang of Tren de Aragua.
Since the law is designed for use during wartime, it is possible that it will face resistance in US courts. A federal judge has already temporarily stopped the expulsions – something that can be appealed by the White House.
Trump, on the other hand, believes that the Venezuelan government has lost control of its territory to criminal organizations, and that it can constitute an “invasion and a violent intrusion” in the United States, which justifies the use of the law.
On social media, Trump continues to emphasize that “murderers and other criminals” should be thrown out of the country.
“If a president does not have the right to throw out murderers and other criminals from our country, then we have very big problems,” he writes in a post on Truth Social.
“We want violent criminals out of our country,” he writes in a Other.