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Joe Popularis
Blatantly ignore the court. Send out another flight of gang members, and tell the judge to try and stop it. The country will side with Trump, and we’ll start to break the chains of judicial tyranny.
Tren de Aragua is a U.S.-designated foreign terrorist organization from Venezuela, with ties to the Venezuelan far-left totalitarian government. According to NBC, in an article that astonishingly tries to be sympathetic toward the gang, the gang’s “signature enterprise is a model of sex trafficking that uses migration as a coercive weapon.”
But aside from sex trafficking, the gang has been involved in U.S. police shootings and drug smuggling, and it made the news for taking over a whole apartment complex in Aurora, Colorado. In Aurora, the gang was seen openly carrying assault weapons, residents lived in fear, and local officials seemed powerless — until ICE carried out a raid and arrested 100 members in the first month of the newly-elected Trump administration.
Most infamously, it was a Tren de Aragua gang member who raped and killed nursing student Laken Riley, while she was jogging on the University of Georgia campus. Tren de Aragua is only here because of the millions of illegal migrants that flooded in under the Biden administration (nearly a million persons from Venezuela alone).
The Trump administration is trying to undo the damage. Last weekend, the administration shipped out 238 Tren de Aragua members, along with 21 MS-13 gang members, to a supermax prison in El Salvador. The administration is citing the Alien Enemies Act, which allows a president to deport noncitizens during wartime. (No we aren’t in an official state of war with Venezuela, but Tren de Aragua has been labeled a foreign terror organization, and the Supreme Court has ruled that deportations under the act are not subject to judicial review.)
Judge Boasberg Wants Venezuelan Terrorists to Stay in America
Enter Judge James E. Boasberg, who sat on the infamous Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Court (FISC) and imposed only probation on a top FBI lawyer — Kevin Clinesmith — who doctored an email so that the intelligence agencies could spy on the 2016 Trump campaign. Hours after the deportation flights departed, Boasberg issued an order demanding the flights be turned around. The White House said that since the flight was over international waters at the time the ruling came in, the judge’s order could be ignored.
Boasberg then demanded access to highly classified flight information — which the White House should and will refuse to give. The spat is ongoing. Trump has reacted by calling for Boasberg’s impeachment, and articles have been filed in the U.S. House. But this is only one example of many.
Another D.C. judge and Canadian citizen, Amir Hatem Mahdy Ali, ordered Trump’s freeze on $2 billion of foreign aid — over fraud and terrorism concerns — illegal. The $2 billion must go out anyway, in contravention of the president’s foreign policy. At the Supreme Court, Chief Justice John Roberts and Amy Coney Barrett joined the court’s leftists and refused to strike down the lower court’s order.
Theodore Chuang, an Obama appointee, ruled the government must restore nearly all of USAID’s operations. Another federal judge has blocked the administration from terminating EPA climate change grants to Citibank, an international bank. Ana Reyes, a Biden appointee to the federal bench, ordered the U.S. military to continue enlisting individuals with gender dysphoria.
These nationwide injunctions are a relatively new problem. As Center for Renewing America CEO Eric Teetsel noted, “67% of all injunctions this century came against President Trump in his first term and 92% were imposed by Democrat-appointed judges.”
But there are deeper problems here than nationwide injunctions. Chief Justice Roberts, in a highly irregular move, openly criticized the move to impeach Boasberg. GOP Sen. Mike Lee wrote on X in response: “How dare he tell Congress it can’t impeach bad judges?” It’s important to note that Roberts could have put a stop to much of this weeks ago by disallowing Judge Ali from blocking Trump’s cut to foreign aid. Instead, Roberts (and Barrett) emboldened the activist judiciary.