The Supreme Court issued an order on Saturday temporarily blocking the Trump administration from deporting 50 illegal immigrants from the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang. Only justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented, with Alito writing a scathing, brilliant dissent that Thomas joined. Two lower courts had already refused to jump in and pause the deportations. 

The order seemed strange, since earlier this month, SCOTUS ruled that Trump has authority under the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan gang members. But it left the door open for litigation by stating that gang members could appeal their deportations on a case by case basis. 

The Alien Enemies Act gives the President unilateral authority to deport noncitizens who are subjects of foreign enemies, although the MSM has been spinning its description to pretend that it can only be invoked during war, since one of the triggers for deportations CAN be wartime. But the statute doesn’t state that it’s required. It clearly gives the President the power to deport dangerous violent individuals sent by a rogue nation. Venezuelan President Nicolas Maduro was deliberately releasing violent criminals from prisons in order to let them flee to the U.S., according to

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