At a Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on Wednesday, Sen. Tammy Duckworth, D-Ill., told Secretary of State Marco Rubio that “innocent people” were tortured and deported because of President Donald Trump’s use of the wartime Alien Enemies Act.

Duckworth asked Rubio if he would “encourage” the president to “rescind” the invocation of a presidential authority from 1798 to deport or detain citizens of enemy nations, which the president summoned to fight criminal Tren de Aragua gang members.

Rubio, however, was quick to defend the administration’s use of the act to deport criminal gang members.

“These groups have waged war on the United States,”........

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