Source: The Dispatch
by John McCormack
“[T]he argument that the Alien Enemies Act is a key tool necessary to carry out mass deportations is absurd on its face. Trump’s proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act applied only to a very tiny percentage of the more than 500,000 Venezuelan unauthorized [sic] immigrants in the country — those who are members of the gang Tren de Aragua (TdA). While there aren’t reliable estimates for the total number of TdA members in the United States, it is perhaps a number in the thousands. The gang MS-13, which is much more well-established in America than Tren de Aragua, has an estimated 10,000 members in the United States according to the Department of Justice. In other words, Trump’s Alien Enemies Act proclamation likely applies to less than 0.1 percent of the entire population of 15 million illegal [sic] immigrants in the United States.” (04/14/25)
https://thedispatch.com/article/donald-trump-supreme-court-immigration-constitution/