Border czar Tom Homan on Tuesday slammed the “radical” Obama-appointed judge who claimed “Nazis got better treatment” after the Trump administration booted scores of alleged Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gangbangers from the United States.
“We follow every procedure within the Aliens Enemy Act. They just need to read that act. We did the right thing,” Homan told Fox News’ “Fox & Friends” after the Trump administration was criticized over the mass deportations.
“They’re [Tren de Aragua] a designated terrorist organization, and I’m sick of these radical judges. Why don’t they talk to Laken Riley’s family, what due process did she have?” he added, referring to the 22-year-old Georgia nursing student killed by an illegal Venezuelan migrant last year.
“We’re keeping President Trump’s promise. We’re going to arrest every one of these people,” Homan continued.
“We’re going to do this every day, 24/7 across this country without apology. We will keep doing what we’re doing.”
His reaction came after Judge Patricia Millett, who has been on the bench since 2013, made the Nazi comparison when she grilled a Justice Department lawyer Monday amid the push to lift a temporary block against Trump’s use of the 1798 law to deport alleged members of the Venezuelan gang.
During the hearing, Millett blasted Trump’s use of the sweeping wartime act.
“There were planeloads of people. There were no procedures in place to notify people,” Millett said at one point. “Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act [during World War II] than has happened here.”
Homan, however, insisted that all those who were deported had some ties to the notorious gang — noting that the “highest levels in ICE” based the determinations on hours of investigations and witness statements.
“They put a lot of effort in this, and I’ve been guaranteed that every one of those Venezuelans are members of TdA,” Homan said.
The Alien Enemies Act has rarely been used in US history, most recently in the 1940s by President Franklin D. Roosevelt to apprehend 120,000 Japanese Americans during World War II.
Trump’s critics, though, argue that the statute requires the US to be at war with another nation to be invoked.
So far, the Trump administration has flown 260 illegal migrants to El Salvador’s brutal mega-prison system amid the deportation crackdown.
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