Former President Donald Trump visited a gang-ravaged Denver suburb on Friday to announce plans to invoke a 226-year-old law designed to break up and deport criminal illegal immigrants across the country.
The 78-year-old Republican candidate told supporters in Aurora, Colorado, that he will go after the Venezuelan gang Torren de Aragua (TdA), whose members have infiltrated the city of just under 400,000 people.
At least 10 members of a violent prison gang have been arrested in Aurora after criminals wreaked havoc and even took over an apartment complex.
“What are they doing to Colorado? They're ruining your state,” Trump said at the beginning of his speech before taking aim at his Democratic opponent, Vice President Kamala Harris. asked.
“Kamala has imported an army of illegal alien gang members and immigrant criminals from the dungeons of the Third World,” President Trump said.
“I will save Aurora and all the towns that have been invaded and conquered,” he continued, adding that the regime will either “put these violent, bloodthirsty criminals behind bars” or “drive them out of the country once and for all.” He said that.
“They are cold murderers,” Trump added, calling on voters in the Centennial State to protest what Democratic officials have done to “the fabric of our culture.”
Two of the most heinous recent crimes allegedly involving illegal immigrants were committed by TdA members, authorities believe.
Jose Ybarra, who is accused of killing Georgia nursing student Laken Riley, is a gang member, as are his two brothers, a Homeland Security official previously told the Post.
Additionally, two immigrant men charged with killing 12-year-old Houston resident Jocelyn Nangaray are suspected of having gang ties.
President Trump paid tribute to those who died and said, “We will implement Operation Aurora at the federal level to expedite the elimination of these brutal gangs.”
“I will invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to target and dismantle every criminal network operating on American soil,” he continued.
President Trump also said that immigrants who reenter the United States after being deported would be sentenced to 10 years in prison, and that illegal immigrants who kill American citizens would receive the death penalty.
The Alien Enemy Act of 1798 gives the president the power to “arrest, detain, secure, and remove” nationals of enemy nations if they are deemed a threat to the United States during wartime.
The law was last used after the attack on Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, when President Franklin D. Not to violate the laws of the United States and its states and territories “ordering people to refrain from committing crimes against the safety of the United States.” and not to engage in any actual hostilities, to furnish information, aid, or comfort to the enemies of the United States, or to interfere by word or deed with the defense of the United States. The Nation or Its Political Process and Public Opinion” – On the Pain of Arrest, Imprisonment, and Deportation.
The law would theoretically allow President Trump to order the immediate deportation of illegal immigrants without first obtaining permission from an immigration judge.
President Trump's attempt to invoke the 18th-century law is likely to face legal challenges from immigration advocates and defense attorneys, who argue that the law was only intended to take effect. Instead, they may argue that it is a violation of habeas corpus or due process. In times of war.
Immigration officials praised Trump's proposal, with one Border Patrol agent telling the Post: “Hmm, yeah.”
“I think it would be great if he could enact it,” the agent added. “For too long we've been silent about the fact that we have to let despicable people into the country, knowing that not all illegal immigrants are criminals. And they say, 'These people are We know that we can hide behind this regime's dream world of 'oppressed people.' ”
“Don't say too much. I think it's a great idea,” said another Border Patrol agent.
“The current administration has left the border wide open and these sophisticated cartels have found ways to exploit the border and make profits. These gangs are a direct threat to the United States,” Immigration and Customs Enforcement said. (ICE) officials said Friday.
“All of this could have been avoided if ICE had been able to do its job,” added another ICE official.
Trump's Colorado stop highlighted the former president's strategy to focus on the border as one of his major closing arguments against Harris.
Although Colorado is not considered a swing state at the presidential level, there are two congressional districts that are important because race will determine control of the House in January 2025.
“My message today is very simple: A person who inflicted the kind of violence and terror that Kamala Harris inflicted on this community should never be allowed to be president of the United States,” Trump said in Aurora. Ta.
