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The Alien Enemies Act, ‘Public Safety,’ the Separation of Powers, and That Little Word ‘Or’ by Lawrence Kadish

https://www.gatestoneinstitute.org/21508/alien-enemies-act-public-safety

The only matter about which there seems no dispute in President Donald J. Trump’s administration having officially designated Tren de Aragua and Mara Salvatrucha (MS-13) as Foreign Terrorist Organizations, is that they are a threat to public safety.

The text of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, written 10 years after the Constitution was ratified, states:

§21 Restraint, regulation, and removal

Whenever there is a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion OR predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States by any foreign nation or government, and the President makes public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being of the age of fourteen years and upward, who shall be within the United States and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured, and removed as alien enemies. The President is authorized in any such event, by his proclamation thereof, or other public act, to direct the conduct to be observed on the part of the United States, toward the aliens who become so liable; the manner and degree of the restraint to which they shall be subject and in what cases, and upon what security their residence shall be permitted, and to provide for the removal of those who, not being permitted to reside within the United States, refuse or neglect to depart therefrom; and to establish any other regulations which are found necessary in the premises and for the public safety.
(R.S. §4067; Apr. 16, 1918, ch. 55, 40 Stat. 531. Emphases added)

The decision to deport alien enemies when a “predatory incursion is perpetrated, attempted, or threatened,” is clearly mandated to the president, who recently ordered deportations of members of Venezuela’s Tren de Aragua, and Latin America’s MS-13.

If anyone was deported unjustly, he can file from abroad for a writ of habeas corpus, to protest having been unjustly imprisoned.

Is Tren de Aragua a Military Incursion? You Bet! Judge Boasberg blocks Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Tren de Aragua, despite intelligence linking the gang to Venezuela’s government and acts of sabotage in the U.S. By Bart Marcois

https://amgreatness.com/2025/03/27/is-tren-de-aragua-a-military-incursion-you-bet/

As President Trump fulfills his campaign promise to deport criminal illegal aliens, a blatantly corrupt judge is trying to stop him. Judge James Boasberg, Chief Judge of the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia, has abandoned all pretense to fairness. I will leave it to others to focus on his conflicts of interest (the FISA Court, his wife, his daughter) and his double standard of justice.

This article is based on an intelligence briefing and refutes Boasberg’s central argument—that it is inappropriate for President Trump to apply the Alien Enemies Act against Tren de Aragua (TdA). Boasberg said TdA is not a foreign government against whom the United States has declared war. But that is a deliberate misreading of the text of the law. The law is quite simple. Here it is, in its entirety:

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That whenever there shall be a declared war between the United States and any foreign nation or government, or any invasion or predatory incursion shall be perpetrated, attempted, or threatened against the territory of the United States, by any foreign nation or government, and the President of the United States shall make public proclamation of the event, all natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects of the hostile nation or government, being males of the age of fourteen years and upwards, who shall be within the United States, and not actually naturalized, shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies. [Emphasis added]

The law states clearly that the predicates for invoking the Act include “any invasion or predatory incursion attempted … by any foreign nation or government” and that “the President shall make public declaration of the event.” Are those conditions met?

The president made the required declaration. On March 15, he issued the official proclamation: “I find and declare that TdA is perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States. TdA is undertaking hostile actions and conducting irregular warfare against the territory of the United States both directly and at the direction, clandestine or otherwise, of the Maduro regime in Venezuela.”

Hamas in America It’s not a protest movement; It’s an invading enemy.Daniel Greenfield

https://www.frontpagemag.com/hamas-in-america/

Sen. Chuck Schumer, Sen. Elizabeth Warren, Sen. Bernie Sanders, Sen. Tim Kaine, Sen. Chris Van Hollen, Sen. Peter Welch, Sen Dick Durbin, Sen. Tammy Baldwin, and 103 House Democrats rallied in support of Mahmoud Khalil: an organizer in a Columbia University terrorist movement that called for “Death to America” and “the total eradication of Western civilization”

Half the House Democrat delegation, the party’s Senate minority leader, its former VP nominee in 2016, and two of its top 3 presidential candidates in 2020 now support the “rights” of this alien enemy to pursue its agendas of destroying Israel and exterminating its Jews, and destroying its indispensable ally America along with the rest of the civilized world.

That’s why David Horowitz’s message was that, “Mahmoud Khalil and his followers are self-declared enemies of America and should be treated as such.” And that’s also the message of the David Horowitz Freedom Center which has always been clear about who the enemy is.

That includes not just the Jihadist allies who terrorized Columbia, scrawling swastikas on its walls, taking janitors hostage and demanding the destruction of America and Israel, but all of their supporters from the street level to the highest levels of political power in Washington D.C.

“When the enemy is US imperialism, then absolutely anyone the US calls an enemy is my friend,” Momodou Taal, the latest foreign student to be targeted for deportation and defended by leftists, declared. That’s a coalition of America’s enemies that potentially includes China, Iran, Russia, Al Qaeda, ISIS, the American Left, and the top leadership of the Democrat Party.

‘Death to America’ is not just a protest slogan and the support of it by top Democrat leaders shows how the radicals who launched their 50-year assault on it succeeded beyond their wildest dreams. From the days of Jane Fonda and Tom Hayden, the Weathermen and their bombs, what people used to call the ‘lunatic left’ is now in command and control of the Democrats.

Media Rallies Against Deportation of Student Who Urged Taking “Cue” from Hamas “My hatred of the US empire knows no bound” Daniel Greenfield

https://www.frontpagemag.com/media-rallies-against-deportation-student-who-urged-taking-cue-from-hamas/

Momodou Taal had a simple plan. Come to America on a student visa to destroy it from within.

In one post, he wrote, “The end of the US empire in our lifetime in sha Allah.” Months later, he celebrated receiving his student visa, writing, “Student Visa issued. We going to America baby! Alhamdulillah!” Shortly thereafter, he tweeted, “My hatred of the US empire knows no bound. Wallahi.”

“When the enemy is US imperialism, then absolutely anyone the US calls an enemy is my friend,” he posted in July. “My hatred for US imperialism and the global system it reproduces knows no bounds,” he wrote one month prior. “At this point; any movement, nation, people who are working to decrease the impact and effects of US imperialism on the world has my support.”

Any sane country would never have let the likes of Momodou Taal inside. But we let him in and welcomed him in every possible way as he chanted support for Islamic terrorism.

While leading an anti-Israel campus demonstration last year, Taal called on his fellow student protesters to take their “cue from the armed resistance in Palestine.”

That is to say Hamas, Islamic Jihad and other Jihadist groups.

Taal made a similar statement hours after the October 7 attacks, writing, “The dialect demands: That wherever you have oppression, you will find those who [are] fighting against it. Glory to the resistance!”

‘Minnesota Men’ Hate U.S., Yearn to Wage Jihad And die as Islamic martyrs. by Lloyd Billingsley

https://www.frontpagemag.com/fpm-plus/minnesota-men-hate-u-s-yearn-to-wage-jihad/

Abdisatar Ahmed Hassan was arrested on February 27 and charged with attempting to provide material support to a foreign terrorist organization. As the Department of Justice explains:

Hassan attempted to travel from Minnesota to Somalia to join ISIS on two occasions, neither of which were successful. Hassan attempted to disguise the purpose of his travel as visiting family despite having none in Somalia and was traveling with his birth certificate, naturalization certificate, and high school diploma. The FBI’s investigation established that Hassan publicly supported ISIS on social media through multiple posts and communicated with a Facebook account for the Manjaniq Media Center, which encouraged individuals to travel to join ISIS and touts itself as a media organization of the Islamic Caliphate.

As the investigation revealed:

Hassan praised Shamsud-Din Jabbar, the perpetrator of the ISIS-inspired terrorist attack in New Orleans, Louisiana, on Jan. 1. On Feb. 21, Hassan also posted a video of himself driving while holding a small ISIS flag inside the vehicle, as well as another video of himself driving with an open knife on his lap. On Feb. 26, FBI observed Hassan driving while again holding the ISIS flag.

Compare the account of ABC news, which calls Hassan a “Minnesota man” who “allegedly expressed admiration for the truck attack in New Orleans.” The Minnesota truck attack admirer was not alone in his enthusiasm for the Islamic State. As the Associated Press noted, Abelhamid Al-Madioum, 27, was “among several Minnesotans suspected of leaving the U.S. to join the Islamic State group,” their names available at this link.

Texas: Muslim cleric announces construction of new Muslims-only enclave near Dallas Robert Spencer

https://jihadwatch.org/2025/02/texas-muslim-cleric-announces-construction-of-new-muslims-only-enclave-near-dallas?utm_source=

Allahu Akbar, Texas… A New Sharia City Near Dallas! THIS is how no-go zones begin. THIS is how the West falls… Radical Imam Yasir Qadhi—a terror-linked extremist—is now building EPIC City, a 1,000+ home Islamic stronghold just 30 minutes from Dallas, complete with Sharia-compliant schools, a mosque, and commercial hubs. And he’s selling it to non-Americans, pushing an Islamic separatist agenda right in the heart of Texas.

For many years I warned that Sharia enclaves would be established, and would continue to expand until conflict became inevitable. This was, of course, denounced as “Islamophobia.”

Guess Who Is Buying Up U.S. Farmland Now? Sarah Anderson

https://pjmedia.com/sarah-anderson/2025/01/23/farmland-frenzy-whos-buying-now-and-why-fetterman-and-tuberville-are-fighting-back-n4936298

With all this talk about the Chinese government infiltrating the United States through TikTok, many have asked: Aren’t the Chinese already doing so through the purchase of U.S. farmland?

About a year and a half ago, Georgia Rep. Mike Collins delivered a speech to the U.S. House of Representatives, citing a 2021 report that China owned 384,000 acres of American agricultural land at that time —  a 30% jump between 2019 and 2020 — and some of that land surrounded an Air Force base in North Dakota, making it a clear threat to national security. Grand Forks, N.D., apparently ended up denying building permits to the Chinese-based food manufacturer that purchased that land and denied access to industrial infrastructure after the mayor called the federal response “slow and contradictory” and an Air Force official called it a “significant threat.” 

While on the campaign trail in 2024, Donald Trump called these types of Chinese investments a “threat to American farmers” and promised that if he were elected, he’d block Chinese nationals from purchasing any additional land. When he met with a group of farmers in Pennsylvania in September, they expressed other concerns beyond national security, such as driving up prices and eliminating a future generation of American farmers and ranchers.   

“My concern today is with foreign [sic] buying up farmland, young Americans can’t afford to buy a farm or even get started,” said beef farmer Todd Reamer, who has owned his farm for three decades. “I know there are young farmers out there who really aspire to own a farm or ranch but can’t because of the high costs. We hear the word ‘sustainable,’ but to stay sustainable we need to give Americans a chance to own farms and ranches so they can continue to produce the safest food supply in the world for generations to come.” 

Border Agents Find ‘Sophisticated’ Migrant Tunnel Built On Biden’s Watch Hudson Crozier

https://dailycaller.com/2025/01/13/migrant-smuggling-tunnel-found-underground-us-southern-border/

Homeland Security officials are searching for the makers of an underground tunnel crossing from Mexico under the U.S. border into El Paso, Texas.

Border Patrol and Homeland Security Investigations (HSI) agents discovered the “man-made smuggling tunnel” during an inspection of a storm drain, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) said in a Friday press release. The agency said the tunnel is equipped with electricity and ventilation and is used by “criminal organizations” to smuggle illegal border crossers.

The discovery highlights the dire situation along the U.S.-Mexico border that President Joe Biden and Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas will pass on to President-elect Donald Trump, policy experts told the Daily Caller News Foundation.

“Tunnels have always been a feature of the border, but Biden and Mayorkas diverted so much of DHS resources to bringing in and processing illegal aliens that they took their eyes off the ball,” Simon Hankinson, a senior research fellow on immigration at the Heritage Foundation, said in an email to the DCNF.

Officials said the six-foot-tall, four-foot-wide structure was built over the past year and called its discovery “historic,” KTSM reported. CBP said federal, state and local law enforcement agencies and Mexico’s government are working to find and arrest the builders.

“The only conceivable need for tunnels would be to traffic into the U.S. the worst – people, drugs, guns, and other [things] cartels don’t want seeing the light of day,” Hankinson said.

Agents found a suspected drug smuggling tunnel near the U.S.-Mexico border in Arizona last month, the third one reported near the state in 2024, according to Newsweek. HSI also found one tunnel stretching 1,744 feet between California and Mexico in 2022.

Federal Benefactors of Islam How the FBI shields terrorists and fails to protect Americans. by Lloyd Billingsley

https://www.frontpagemag.com/federal-benefactors-of-islam/

In any terrorist attack, facts about the perpetrators and victims are slow to emerge in any detail. In New Orleans on New Year’s Day, the primary fact was clear right from the start. The Federal Bureau of Investigation failed to prevent a Muslim named Shamsud-Din Jabbar from perpetrating an act of vehicular jihad that claimed at least 14 innocent lives and wounded many others. The FBI was quick to augment the failure with falsehood.

New Orleans mayor La Toya Cantrell told reporters, “know that the city of New Orleans was impacted by a terrorist attack.” For FBI Assistant Special Agent in Charge Alethea Duncan, “this is not a terrorist event,” and the FBI would be taking over the investigation. The result was what Americans have come to expect.

Shamsud-Din Jabbar flew a black Islamic State Flag. The FBI acknowledged the connection but found no evidence that the Islamic State had directed him to launch the attack. As it happens, back in 2014, ISIS told its followers: 

If you are not able to find an IED or a bullet, then single out the disbelieving American, Frenchman, or any of their allies. Smash his head with a rock, or slaughter him with a knife, or run him over with your car, or throw him down from a high place, or choke him, or poison him.

So the FBI was wrong, and the New Orleans attack was hardly its first failure. As the people might recall, on February 26, 1993, the FBI failed to prevent Islamic terrorists from bombing the World Trade Center in New York. The attack claimed six deaths, with more than 1,000 wounded, a warning of what was to come.

On September 11, 2001, the FBI failed to prevent a small band of Al Qaeda terrorists from hijacking airliners and crashing them into the World Trade Center and Pentagon, with 3,000 dead and thousands wounded. After this massive attack, the worst since Pearl Harbor in 1941, the FBI failed to elevate its vigilance against Islamic jihad on American soil.

U.S. Army major Nidal Hasan proclaimed himself a “Soldier of Allah,” the definition of a jihadist. The FBI knew Hasan was communicating with al Qaeda terrorist Anwar al-Awlaki about killing Americans. Even so, the bureau’s Washington office “does not currently assess Hasan to be involved in terrorist activities.” In reality, he was.

Bourbon Street Massacre is What ‘Globalize the Intifada’ Looks Like But hey, at least Islam is an “oppressed” religion, right? by Josh Hammer

https://www.frontpagemag.com/bourbon-street-massacre-is-what-globalize-the-intifada-looks-like/

As woke illiberalism replaced live-and-let-live liberalism as the animating ideology of the American Left, the state of Israel has increasingly found itself on the outs. Never mind that modern Israel was founded by, and for three decades politically dominated by, a bunch of left-wing socialists. Never mind that Harry Truman, an iconic liberal Democratic president, became the first world leader to recognize the fledgling Jewish state a mere 11 minutes after it announced its independence in 1948. None of that history matters on the left anymore, after wokeism supplanted liberalism.

In the fatuous neo-Marxist dichotomy of modern wokeism, Jews are deemed a “white,” “oppressor” class; Muslims, by contrast, are deemed a “brown,” “oppressed” class. To be a leftist in good standing, then, necessitates supporting the latter over the former — and, therefore, supporting Palestinian Arab jihadism over the Jewish people’s eternal will to survive. To the woke, the Palestinian Arabs’ quest to annihilate the Jews of Israel represents a vogue and chic cause — just like Black Lives Matter did five years ago, and just like same-sex marriage did five years before that.

The apotheosis of this bemusing sentiment was the Hamas massacre of Oct. 7, 2023. Sure, babies were beheaded, women were raped, beautiful young music festival attendees were butchered, and Holocaust survivors were executed in their homes — but “Palestine” was being “decolonized,” and every good leftist knows you have to break a few eggs in order to make an omelet! The ends always justify the means, as Saul Alinsky famously taught. Accordingly, in the words of disgraced Cornell history professor Russell Rickford, the Hamas massacre was “exhilarating” and “energizing.”

The imperative now, as thousands of young jihadis infesting America’s university campuses have made clear, is to spread the “love”: to “globalize the intifada” and, in the words of the radical leftists who congregated in Times Square in New York City earlier this week, to foment a worldwide “intifada revolution.” The more, the merrier: Sharing is caring, after all!