“These are the monsters sent to our country by cheater Joe Biden and the far-left Democrats.” This is how Donald Trump comments on the shocking video he posted last night on Truth showing the arrival, at an airport in combat gear, of over 200 Venezuelan migrants, considered by Washington to be members of the Tren de Aragua gang, classified as a terrorist organization, deported to the infamous Salvadoran maximum security prisons following an agreement with President Nayib Bukele.
“Thanks to El Salvador and thanks in particular to President Bukele who understood this horrible situation,” Trump writes again, commenting on the video, originally published by the Salvadoran president, which shows these men in chains, all forced to walk bent over, being dragged off the plane by soldiers in riot gear. The video continues with the arrival of dozens of buses, and a massive deployment of law enforcement and military, at the super-security prison, where the inmates are made to kneel and are shaved.
In short, Trump has chosen to publicize to the fullest, for the benefit of his supporters, what appears to be a real deportation, with which he challenges the federal judge who on Saturday blocked the application of the measure for two weeks, signed in secret on Friday, to invoke an 18th-century war law to have the authority to summarily deport Venezuelan migrants as “enemy aliens.” It was the first time since World War II that the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 had been invoked, applied only three times in American history.
In blocking the application of the law, Judge James Boasberg had also ordered that all planes that had already departed with the Venezuelans to be expelled be returned. White House spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt denied that this order had been violated, claiming that at the time of the federal judge’s ruling, the Venezuelans had “already been removed from American soil.” But then she openly stated that federal judges would have “no jurisdiction” over how the president manages foreign policy or his power to expel enemy aliens.
“A single judge in a single city cannot control the movements of a plane full of foreign terrorists who have been physically expelled from the United States,” she added, thus suggesting that there was a precise intention to challenge the ruling.
The announcement of the arrival of the Venezuelans in El Salvador also seems to have followed a precise script, with Bukele, the controversial president who likes to call himself “the coolest dictator in the world,” being the first to announce the arrival of the Venezuelans, with a post in which he also mocked the judge’s ruling: “Oops…too late.” Then came messages from Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Attorney General Pam Bondi celebrating the “historic result,” with the removal of “foreigners who terrorized Americans with guerrilla warfare,” and finally the shocking video posted by Trump.
