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1/2:SCOTUS: VENEZUELA DEPORTATIONS. JOHN YOO, CIVITAS INSTITUTE

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John Batchelor

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🗓️ 10 April 2025

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1/2:SCOTUS: VENEZUELA DEPORTATIONS. JOHN YOO, CIVITAS INSTITUTE
1924 SCOTUS

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0:00.0

This is CBS, I on the World. I'm John Batchel.

0:07.0

The headline in the Hill, Supreme Court lifts orders blocking Trump from deporting Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act.

0:17.0

I welcome Professor John You at the Civitas Institute, writing about this and writing in the National Review Online as well about the case of Venezuelans accused of alleged members of the violent Venezuelan gang, the Trondi Aragua, being deported by the Trump administration to El Salvador,

0:42.2

and that being a denial of a due process to these individuals, many of whom, some of whom deny,

0:51.3

there are members of Trendy Aragua.

0:53.3

What happens to them in El Salvador is not

0:58.7

transparent, but Naïbe Buceli, the president of El Salvador, is a man who has solved the crime

1:05.5

problem in El Salvador by building very large jails and keeping thousands of young people in jail for long periods of time.

1:13.8

So it doesn't suggest there's justice at the other end of the airplane ride.

1:18.8

Professor, a very good evening to you.

1:21.3

You write, most recently, the National Review Online.

1:24.5

The courts overstep in the messy clash with Trump over Trendy Aragwa. We better establish

1:29.8

some details here. What is the Alien Enemies Act that is at the center of this authority that

1:36.8

the president's administration has taken upon itself? Good evening to you, John.

1:41.9

Good evening, John. It's great to be with you.

1:45.4

The Alien Enemies Act is a law that comes to us from 1798.

1:51.2

It was passed in the days when we thought we were going to have a naval war against France.

1:57.8

It's always been a disappointment to me that we've never been to war with France, but

2:02.0

there was going to be a, eventually it was called the quasi-war with France. The law says in a time

2:10.1

of a declared war or an invasion or predatory incursion by another country.

2:20.3

The government can detain and remove citizens of that country.

2:27.3

This is something that nations have always done during wartime.

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