Donald Trump on Saturday invoked a centuries-old law to detain and deport members of a Venezuelan gang, but his executive order was swiftly blocked by a federal judge.
Trump’s order cited the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to remove members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, who it said had “unlawfully infiltrated the United States and are conducting irregular warfare and undertaking hostile actions against the United States”.
The policy relies on an authority that was last invoked in the second world war to intern non-US citizens of Italian, German and Japanese descent — one of the most controversial episodes in American history.
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