Note from Asha 3/19: Why the Alien Enemies Act Is So Dangerous in Trump's Hands

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Politics, News

4.6 • 848 Ratings

🗓️ 19 March 2025

⏱️ 11 minutes

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Asha Rangappa is a Senior Lecturer at Yale University's Jackson Institute for Global Affairs. Before that, she served as a Special Agent in the New York Division of the FBI, specializing in counterintelligence investigations. She is also a legal and national security analyst at CNN and an editor of Just Security. For a transcript of Asha’s note and the full archive of contributor notes, head to CAFE.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:17.4	Hey folks, Asha here.
0:20.2	Here's a recording of my latest Cafe note,
0:22.6	Why the Alien Enemies Act is so dangerous in Trump's hands.
0:27.6	As always, please write to us with your thoughts and questions at letters atcafe.com.
0:33.6	Dear Lister, on Saturday, President Trump issued an executive order invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798
0:45.7	to remove, he claims, members of the Venezuelan gang Thren de Aragua, TDA, from the U.S. In so doing, Trump is trying to use the post-9-11
0:58.1	terrorism playbook for immigration. As a policy issue and as a national security threat,
1:04.9	illegal immigration is very different, factually and legally, from terrorism, which would
1:10.1	ordinarily set this EO up to be just another
1:12.9	of Trump's policies that will fail in the courts.
1:15.9	The problem is, under the executive authority the Trump administration purports to claim,
1:21.5	Trump may try to ignore or sidestep the courts altogether, giving him immense wartime
1:27.3	authority in peacetime without any judicial
1:30.5	check.
1:31.8	So a quick primer.
1:33.5	The Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is a law that was passed during the quasi-war with France
1:39.4	that states the following.
1:41.2	Quote, whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any
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