Are Deported Tren de Aragua Suspects Receiving Due Process?

_WHAT’S HAPPENING_

Former ICE Director and current border czar Tom Homan is defending a wave of high-profile deportations of Venezuelan nationals, including suspected members of the violent Tren de Aragua (TdA) gang — a US-designated Foreign Terrorist Organization.

To speed up deportations, the Trump administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which allows the president to order the apprehension, restraint, and removal of "natives, citizens, denizens, or subjects" of a hostile nation when there is a declared war, an invasion, or a predatory incursion against the United States.

Many deportees have been clear-cut cases. But some recent deportations have come under fire from critics who allege the removals are being done without proper due process.

_THE FACTS_

Border czar Tom Homan confirmed 240 suspected members of Tren de Aragua were deported in a recent ICE operation.
Homan said gang affiliation was identified using surveillance, wiretaps, informants, social media, and sworn testimony — not just criminal records.
Many deportees had no prior convictions but were flagged through intelligence, linking them to organized criminal activity.
The suspected gang members were flown to El Salvador to the extraordinarily harsh prisons constructed by President Nayib Bukele to house some of the worst criminals on the planet.
On ABC’s Sunday show This Week, Homan was asked if the suspected gang members received any due process to prove their affiliation with Tren de Aragua before they were sent to prison.
Homan responded, “What was Laken Riley’s due process? Where were all these young women that were killed and raped by TdA — where was their due process?”
“The bottom line is that plane was full of people designed as terrorists,” Homan continued. “Every Venezuelan on that flight was a TdA member based on numerous criminal investigations, on intelligence reports, and a lot of work by ICE officers.”
Independent journalist Glenn Greenwald noted that “All available evidence strongly suggests that at least one of the Venezuelans shipped to a monstrous prison in El Salvador for life has nothing to do with Tren De Aragua.”

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Charles Williams1 year ago

Due process for illegals should take nothing more than a formal statement that they are here illegally and Federal Law prohibits them from being here in the first place..

Bruce Briggs1 year ago

On Tue, Nov 5, 2024, the people of the United States of America voted for DJT and by proxy, to oust all ILLEGAL aliens that were invading this country (and many others across the world). These people have no rights since they were not supposed to be here in the first place. Sneaking into a country doesn't give you a voice. There is no reason why they should be getting any process, let alone DUE PROCESS. Pack them up and ship them out.

Catherine Bogucki1 year ago

They weren’t vetted coming in. They are here illegally, so they waved due process goodbye

claude chase1 year ago

I'm 74 yo. and never liked what happened to Japanese Americans after Perl Harbor, but detaining and holding them was crucial to insuring no bad actors were running loose on our streets. The worst thing was that their property (Homes & Belongings) were were stolen and sold off while they were being detained. However these invaders about which we are here speaking have no ownership investments in our country! So if the lower courts are going to hog-tie the process of getting rid of them, then perhaps we should collect them and toss their buts in holding camps while we slow walk these judges through their ten minutes of undeserved fame and promote replacement judges at the same time as we legally deal with these illegals one at a time? At least that would stop their bad actions on our streets and citizens while the whole Nation and World focus's on this stupid anti-American Judicial activity !

Jim Ahern1 year ago

Well Brandon, one would ask where was the "due process" for all the J6 Americans, some who were held hostage for yrs. for nothing other than misdemeanor offenses at best? Yet your trying to apply the law of due process to illegal aliens at the very least and vile criminal illegals at the very worst. This harkens to the Birthright ridiculous debate. Just like you can't run into the country and plop out a kid and claim citizenship with an anchor baby, you can't expect due process when your an illegal alien. We need to stop the corrupt/radical judges from artificially complicating legality and follow common sense/practical law. What a concept, huh?

Gary Wade1 year ago

Can you explain why someone who commits the crime of entering the US illegally suddenly acquires rights they didn't have before committing the crime?

Gloria Powell1 year ago

Try your civil liberties is any other country as an illegal criminal. The problem here is as old as time. No good deed goes unpunished. We allowed a few million to break in, trespass and then ultimately gave them amnesty because it was too difficult to deport them. We needed the "labor" that the elites decided American citizens would not do. Then the millions just keep coming and oh no we can't just evict them without "due process". There just has to be a point where you close the door, no passing go and if you sneak in you forfeit due process. Too many lawyers getting rich off this scam.

Janet Null1 year ago

I absolutely agree in deportations and these violent gang members and others who protest and/or support our enemies must go. Investigations are due process. We don’t have the jails nor the courts to push due process rights given to citizens

Jonathan Horen1 year ago

I think you meant "due process rights given to non-citizens." Am I right?

Drew Williams1 year ago

Fourteenth Amendment, Section 1:

"All persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof, are citizens of the United States and of the State wherein they reside. No State shall make or enforce any law which shall abridge the privileges or immunities of citizens of the United States; nor shall any State deprive any person of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law; nor deny to any person within its jurisdiction the equal protection of the laws."

This clause conjoins "persons" and "citizens" in the first sentence. To read into it that "persons" are distinct from citizens is intellectual dishonesty. As one commenter stated, "Can you explain why someone who commits the crime of entering the US illegally suddenly acquires rights they didn't have before committing the crime?" If we have to provide due process to non-citizens, then once again, the American taxpayer is being forced to pay the price to remove these people from our country.

J Riley1 year ago

Illegal immigrants are not "subject to the jurisdiction thereof," that is, the US. They are subject to the country from where they came, until they become citizens. Is this a correct assessment?

Bill Roberts1 year ago

I’m sorry but I don’t have a bleeding heart to anyone who entered our country illegally. They came here under a open border from the Biden administration and now they are being removed by the Trump administration that the mandate of getting them out was approved by a citizen majority that want them out of our country anyway it takes to do it. Illegals have no right in my opinion.

William Richardson1 year ago

It’s a scam to say a non-citizen person with no vested interest and illegally entering the United States has any rights other than being treated humanely while deporting them so fast it makes their heads swim. This is more nonsensical, no common sense interpretation of the Constitution. I agree that no person should be sent to a prison without proper vetting. Any person breaking the law by illegally entering the country should be immediately deported to their country of origin. Due process should consist of nothing more than validating…yep non citizen and yep entered the country illegally…boom…deported.

Patricia Rawlinson1 year ago

What about all the people that were brought into this country by plane from the Biden administration that were not vetted? Should due process apply to them and then we find out they were not legally brought into the country by our government? What do we do with them?