Deportation law prep, Israel’s border refusal, Tate brothers in US & more
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🗓️ 27 February 2025
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| 0:31.4 | From CNN, I'm Charlie Drever with the five things you need to know for Thursday, February 27th. |
| 0:38.1 | The Trump administration is gearing up to use a controversial 18th century wartime law |
| 0:44.0 | to speed up mass deportations. |
| 0:46.8 | That's according to multiple sources. |
| 0:49.0 | And if the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is used, |
| 0:52.6 | it would give President Donald Trump huge amounts of power to target and remove undocumented immigrants. |
| 0:59.0 | That's because detentions and deportations wouldn't have to go through the immigration court system. |
| 1:05.0 | So, who is Trump looking to target first? |
| 1:08.0 | I asked CNN's Priscilla Alvarez. |
| 1:10.0 | Charlie, sources tell us that the primary target as of now is Dren Njadawa, the notorious Venezuelan |
| 1:15.6 | gang, which was also recently designated as a foreign terrorist organization. |
| 1:19.8 | Further discussions would be sending them back to Venezuela, but also to some countries that |
| 1:24.7 | have agreed to take back other nationalities like El Salvador. |
| 1:28.6 | But legal experts say it would be difficult for Trump to use the act when the U.S. isn't being |
| 1:33.4 | attacked by a foreign government, which was the initial intention of the Alien Enemies Act. |
| 1:39.1 | And they say that even if the administration does cite threats from gangs or cartels, it may not be enough |
| 1:45.5 | to shore up their decision to invoke this law. |
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