Rep. Ilhan Omar (D-MN) called for Congress to repeal the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, a law that President Donald Trump has cited as the basis for his deportation agenda.
Flanked by a handful of female Democratic lawmakers on Capitol Hill on Wednesday afternoon, Omar said Trump and White House senior adviser Stephen Miller planned to stretch the law to sweep up immigrants en masse.
“The context in which Trump and Miller are raising the Alien Enemies Act is in what they say are their plans to target cartels and transnational criminal gangs, but it is not what the Alien Enemies Act does,” said Omar. “The Alien Enemies Act targets people based on their nationality, not based on their behavior. … It does not allow
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