Hi, this is Thatcher in San Diego, California.

I'm currently working to code my very own memory allocator in the C programming language for an assignment in my university class.

This podcast was recorded at 107 p.m. on Monday, March 17th, St. Patrick's Day.

Things may have changed by the time you hear this, but I'll still be working diligently to earn my degree from the University of California, San Diego. Here's the show.

Geez, impressive. I wish he could have translated what he said. Yeah, right. I was going to ask for a translation, too.

Hey there, it's the NPR Politics Podcast.

I'm Tamara Keith. I cover the White House.

I'm Kimana-Bustillo, and I cover immigration policy.

And I'm Mara Liason, senior national political correspondent.

And today on the show, we're going to look at the Alien Enemies Act.

That's the provision the White House invoked this weekend. When it deported

hundreds of people, it alleges to be Venezuelan gang members. They were flown to El Salvador.

Those deportations have been challenged in court. Hemena, give us the background here. What is this

authority that the president has invoked? So the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 is a

rarely used law that gives the president authority to detain or deport nationals of an enemy

nation, particularly during wartime. This is only the fourth time in American history. A president has used the act

and the first since World War II. The law requires war to be formally declared, which,

you know, Congress only really has the authority to do. And the president was asked about this

on Air Force One over the weekend. The reporter said, this has previously only been used at times

of war. Well, this is a time of war because Biden allowed millions of people, many of them,

criminals, many of them at the highest level. They emptied jails out, other nations,

emptied their jails into the United States. That's an invasion.

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