Washington DC [US], April 19 : US President Donald Trump on Friday (local time) alleged that his predecessor, Joe Biden, allowed the illegal entry of criminals through the US border.
Trump affirmed that he would shoo these criminals away, as it was his job to do so.
In a post on X, he said, "Sleepy Joe Biden, THE WORST PRESIDENT IN THE HISTORY OF THE UNITED STATES, has allowed millions and millions of Criminals, many of them murderers, drug dealers, and people released from prisons and mental institutions from all around the world, to enter our Country through it's very dangerous and ill conceived Open Border. Sorry, but it's my job to get these killers and thugs out of here. THAT'S WHAT I GOT ELECTED TO DO. MAGA!"
https://x.com/realDonaldTrump/status/1913359413215142354
Meanwhile, a Federal Judge in Washington DC told lawyers for migrants in Texas who believed the Trump administration is about to swiftly deport them under the Alien Enemies Act that he did not have the power to pause the deportations, even though he was concerned about the administration's actions, CNN reported.
During the hearing, a Justice Department attorney said that while no flights are planned, the Department of Homeland Security said it reserves the right to remove people tomorrow.
"I am sympathetic to everything you're saying, I just don't I think I have the power to do anything," Judge James Boasberg said at an emergency hearing, as per CNN.
He said that, under a recent Supreme Court ruling, only the courts with jurisdiction over the Texas detention centre where the migrants were being held had the power to intervene.
A group of Venezuelan migrants in Texas asked the Supreme Court on Friday (local time) to halt their removal under the Alien Enemies Act.
The emergency appeal is the second time Trump's use of the sweeping 18th century wartime authority has landed at the high court.
Last week, the court permitted Trump to use the authority, but said migrants being removed under it needed to receive notice they are subject to the act and an opportunity to have their removal reviewed by the federal court where they are being detained, as per CNN.
In the appeal brought today, lawyers for the migrants say they are "at risk of imminent removal" under the law and that officials haven't provided the migrants with the sufficient notice the Supreme Court said must be given, as per CNN.
"The Government's actions to-date, including its lighting-fast timeline, do not give members of the proposed class a realistic opportunity to contest their removal under the AEA," the lawyers wrote, referring to the group of migrants who might soon be deported under the wartime authority, CNN reported.
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