President Trump plans to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to address illegal immigration and cartel activity. He will designate drug cartels as terrorist organizations and utilize federal and state law enforcement to remove criminal networks from the U.S. This is the first time the act will be used outside of declared war.
In one of his first acts as president, Donald Trump is set to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as his chief tool to confront the invasion of illegal migrants and the crimes committed by the Mexican drug cartels.
Trump’s use of the act will be novel in that the U.S. is not technically “at war” with the cartels and the invasion of illegal migrants. But citing it to form the basis of his actions to secure the southern border would serve to lend his actions a legality that will not be so easily defeated by activists for lawbreaking illegals and the lawsuits they will file in the coming weeks and months.
The AEA allows a president to detain, relocate, or expel non-citizens if they are from a country that is an avowed enemy of the U.S.:
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