The Trump administration is expected to invoke a sweeping wartime authority to speed up the president’s mass deportation pledge in the coming days, according to four sources familiar with the discussions.

The little-known 18th-century law, the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, gives the president tremendous authority to target and remove undocumented immigrants, though legal experts have argued it would face an uphill battle in court.

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    If ICE can’t find enough illegals to sate his bloodlust, what’s he gonna do? He’s going to round up not-whites and deport them; everyone not-white will be considered guilty till proven innocent.

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      They’re now saying that Biden over-inflated the number of deportations under his administration to excuse why Trump’s ICE isn’t doing as many.

      You know, the Biden admin that they claimed had a completely open border and was just letting billions of brown people in.

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      Yeah, and that includes people who have no country to be deported to… They’ll get disappeared just like Mahmoud Khalil

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    Court? The same court that has been telling him, “You can’t do that, undo it” on so many issues, which he’s ignored? That court? Into the ovens with them, then!

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    This is why people say the dems are no different then the nazis, they both take orders from the oligarchs

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      This is why people say the dems are no different then the nazis, they both take orders from the oligarchs

      I’m sorry, what do the Democrats have to do with this post? Are we just openly blaming Democrats for Trump’s actions now?

      Come on dude, do better.