Trump Declares Gangs as Alien Enemies to be Deported; Federal Judge Blocks Move
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 18 March 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
Over 200 gang members from Tren de Aragua and MS-13 have been deported from the United States, and have now arrived at a prison in El Salvador. Videos were posted online showing the gang members being taken from the planes and sent to the country’s Terrorism Confinement Center. The deportation follows a recent action from President Donald Trump to invoke the Alien Enemies Act, where he declared an invasion of the United States by Tren de Aragua, a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization. Now, a legal battle is beginning as well, after a federal judge blocked Trump’s invocation of the act and also ordered the deportation of gang members to stop.
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| 0:00.0 | President Donald Trump has officially invoked the Alien Enemies Act, and now over 200 gang members |
| 0:06.6 | from Trendairagua and MS-13 have been deported from the United States and have arrived |
| 0:13.2 | to their brand new home, a prison in El Salvador. Meanwhile, Carrie Lake is now senior advisor |
| 0:19.1 | for the U.S. Agency for Global Media, and she's announced some major changes to government media. |
| 0:26.3 | Also, is Donald Trump pushing to devalue the U.S. dollar using tariffs? |
| 0:31.1 | I'm the Epic Times Senior investigative reporter Joshua Phillip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:47.3 | Over 200 gang members from Trenda, Aragua, and MS-13, they've been deported from the United States. This is probably the first of many. And they've now arrived with a new home, a prison in El Salvador. Now, videos were posted online showing the gang members being taken from the planes, |
| 0:59.0 | heads held down, heads shaved, sent to the country's terrorism confinement center, |
| 1:06.0 | which is being paid for now by the US at a very good deal. |
| 1:09.0 | The deportations of all these individuals follow recent |
| 1:12.5 | actions for President Donald Trump to invoke the Alien Enemies Act. Donald Trump has now officially |
| 1:19.2 | declared the United States is under invasion by Trend de Aragua, a gang, and also by Venezuela |
| 1:26.5 | by extension. Now, a legal battle is starting there as well. |
| 1:31.1 | A federal judge blocked Trump invoking the act. And then the judge also ordered that the deportation |
| 1:37.9 | of gang members be stopped. Even said the planes have to turn around and people have to just |
| 1:43.3 | return all the gang members to America. |
| 1:45.8 | The president of El Salvador responded to the judge and said, too late. Not even joking. |
| 1:51.4 | Now, look, first off on the orders, as Donald Trump discussed when he was on the campaign trail, |
| 1:56.2 | he has now invoked the Alien Enemies Act. He suggested he'd do it. He has now officially done it. |
| 2:02.6 | This is an 18th century law in place for most of America's history. It was put into action |
| 2:09.1 | actually shortly after the, you know, forming of the United States as a country. And this basically |
| 2:14.4 | allows the Trump administration to use very broad powers to carry out mass deportations, |
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