The President of the United States, Donald TrumpHe kept this Saturday with his promise to invoke the law of foreign enemies of 1798 to accelerate the deportation of immigrants without documents thanks to a regulation of infamous-proven memory in the concentration of Japanese-American citizens in the Second World War and granted to the President large skills to expel people, He warns Amnesty International.
In a presidential proclamation, published on Saturday, The White Hol “The United States illegally infiltrated And they are carrying out an irregular war and performing hostile actions against the country.
The law is designed for Be invoked if the United States are at war With another country, or if a foreign nation has invaded the United States or threatens to do so and allows the administration to immediately delay inmates. During the first and Second World War, it was used to justify the detention and expulsion of German immigrants, Austrohungaros, Italians and Japanese.
The director of the Rights of Refugees and Migrants of Amnesty International USA, Amy Fisher, describes the invocation as “An incredibly cruel measure”, Made to improve Trump’s “Xenophoba agenda”.
This discriminatory law, recalls the amnesty, “gives the president an incredibly wide power to stop and expel large groups of people for their nationality e Open the doors to a greater risk of human rights violationsincluding the right to non -discrimination, the right trial and the request for asylum.
“It is archaic and should be banned by modern society”Fisher knew this, while some federal judges began to resist Trump’s decision at the beginning of Saturday, even before his publication.
The magistrate James E. Boasberg He admitted the preventive application submitted by the American Union for civil and democratic freedoms and has launched a temporary restriction order that prevents deportation for 14 days, by virtue of the law, of the five Venezuelans who are already in custody of immigration and who believed they were transferred for deportation.
The temporary restriction order applies only to those who presented the complaint on Saturday, but to the judge will hold the second public this Saturday At night to decide whether to extend the application of your opinion.
