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BumRushDaShow

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7. The issue here is that the "Alien Enemies Act" is explicitly directed to applying to when the U.S. is "at war"
Mon Mar 17, 2025, 07:22 PM
Mar 17

with some other country (literally "declared", which was the last time it was used - War of 1812, WW1, WW2).

And in that particular case, it skips over any due process that is normally used with other laws, to detain and/or deport what they consider "enemy combatants" (or alleged ones).

But if they allow this to proceed without any sign of a "war", and let it go unchallenged, then he CAN claim that people are associated with fictitious "state-sponsored" gangs or whatever and detain/deport them.

In the case of Japan, Germany, and Italy - we declared war against those countries and had detention camps (and believe it or not, there were some that housed Germans & Italians - I think some being POWs though, in many places) -



(https://web.archive.org/web/20151215083112/http://www.gaic.info/ShowPage.php?section=History&page=Related_Laws)

45's loons are trying to argue that the Venezuelan gang is like a "country" or is supposedly directed by one (and Maduro). But it still leaves out the obvious fact that we haven't "declared war" on Venezuela!

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