Trump to Invoke Alien Enemies Act for Mass Deportations
Crossroads with Joshua Philipp
The Epoch Times
4.9 • 594 Ratings
🗓️ 15 March 2025
⏱️ 72 minutes
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Summary
The push for mass deportations could soon get the backing of a major order. President Donald Trump is reportedly expected to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798. He discussed using this order when he was on the campaign trail, and it would give the president broad authority to deport noncitizens.
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| 0:00.0 | President Donald Trump is allegedly set to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to carry out mass deportations. |
| 0:07.9 | Meanwhile, the free hotels for illegal immigrants in New York are now under investigation by the Department of Justice. |
| 0:15.1 | And in other news, the Environmental Protection Agency is rolling out a large program of deregulation as part of a program |
| 0:23.0 | for the Great American Comeback. And also, a program to roll out an oral vaccine has been stopped, |
| 0:30.5 | at least temporarily, by RFK Jr. I'm the Epic Times Senior Investigator reporter Joshua |
| 0:35.8 | Philip, and you're listening to Crossroads. |
| 0:43.7 | The push for mass deportations. Well, it's been slowing down, kind of moving, but they're having some trouble with it. |
| 0:51.4 | It could soon get the backing of a major order. President Donald Trump |
| 0:56.0 | is allegedly set to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as soon as today, they said, but we'll see. |
| 1:03.9 | Now, he discussed using this order when he was on the campaign trail. This would give the president |
| 1:09.0 | of the United States extremely broad authority to deport |
| 1:13.6 | basically any non-citizen. |
| 1:15.6 | Now, the allegation comes from CNN White House reporter Alina Trin, and here's what she wrote on |
| 1:21.1 | X. She said, quote, new, the Trump administration is expected to invoke the Alien |
| 1:26.1 | Enemies Act of 1798, a sweeping wartime authority. |
| 1:31.7 | It's not just wartime, but I'll get into that. |
| 1:34.1 | In the coming days, she said sources familiar with the move tell these individuals and herself. |
| 1:39.3 | She says the move is designed to speed up the president's mass deportation pledge and adds the |
| 1:45.8 | announcement which could be made as soon as tomorrow today will come in the form of a presidential |
| 1:51.6 | proclamation the move would likely pave the way for quicker removals of certain immigrants read |
| 1:58.4 | illegal immigrants now look this has not been officially confirmed technically |
| 2:03.3 | trump hasn't said he's going to come out and do it but he did say he was going to do it when he was |
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