Over the weekend, the Supreme Court halted the deportation flights of Tren de Aragua members. It was a 7-2 decision. Only Justices Alito and Thomas dissented. The liberal media will once again overplay their hand here, as they've done on the Abrego Garcia case, the MS-13 gang member who got deported back to El Salvador. The Supreme Court never ordered Trump to bring him back:
Legacy media keeps falsely reporting SCOTUS ordered Trump to facilitate Garcia's return to the U.S. I really think they believe that and no one bothers to actually read the opinion--which says no such thing! ⬇️ pic.twitter.com/4MisDateoY
— Margot Cleveland (@ProfMJCleveland) April 19, 2025
On this issue, the initial ruling was that the president has the authority to invoke the Alien Enemies Act to deport these illegal alien terrorists—members of Tren de Aragua. Still, they had to give ample notice of their deportation and the ability to challenge it in court. For this group in Texas that was about to be shipped out, they claim no options to challenge was afforded to them. The American Civil Liberties Union raced to block these deportations. Ed Whelan at National Review claims one reason the court issued this temporary pause is because they don't trust the Trump administration:
The only explanation I can see for the Supreme Court's extraordinary 7-2 order that directs the Trump administration "not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this Court" is that the Court does not trust the Trump… pic.twitter.com/BIovIAFzQk
— Ed Whelan (@EdWhelanEPPC) April 19, 2025
This is why they should have brought Garcia back. The Administration’s behaviors do not exist in a vacuum. They will affect the views of the Justices of the Supreme Court on many things. https://t.co/k59CFtxPFx
— Erick Erickson (@EWErickson) April 19, 2025
It's ridiculous that no due process shenanigans were brought up when Joe Biden was importing criminal illegal aliens, but now they're being deported and Democrats are crying, we must go through them on a case-by-base basis.
This judgement is specifically like, “you can’t deport tren de aragua.”
— Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC) April 19, 2025
WOW. Listen to how angry Stephen Miller is. pic.twitter.com/YFchtjDT5n
— Eric Daugherty (@EricLDaugh) April 19, 2025
"Do you know how many stories I could tell you of children that were trafficked across the border and r*ped because of the policies of Joe Biden? There aren't enough volumes that could fit into a library to…
We live in a society where foreign alien terrorists have unlimited free legal representation.
— Stephen Miller (@StephenM) April 19, 2025
But Americans whose communities have been stolen from them are left without recourse.
We are rebalancing the scales.
Where were the judges when Tren de Aragua was getting imported in to the country
— Emma-Jo Morris (@EmmaJoNYC) April 19, 2025
A nation in which one administration can allow millions of unvetted illegal migrants into the country, but requires that a court vet each deportation decision in an individually adjudicated case will soon lose the values our democratic system was intended to preserve.
— Bill Ackman (@BillAckman) April 19, 2025
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