A District of Columbia circuit court judge accused the Trump administration Monday of treating alleged members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang worse than those foreign nationals accused of being Nazis in the U.S. during World War II.
Judge Patricia Millett — appointed to the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals in 2013 by then-President Barack Obama — grilled Trump Department of Justice attorney Drew Ensign over the administration’s decision to deport 260 purported members of Tren de Aragua under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
They were flown to a prison in El Salvador earlier this month.
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“The Alien Enemies Act allows noncitizens to be deported without the opportunity to go before an immigration or federal court judge,” the Associated Press reported.
Trump issued a
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