Former acting Deputy Secretary of Homeland Security Ken Cuccinelli defended President Donald Trump’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport members of Tren de Aragua, Wednesday, calling the Venezuelan gang an arm of the Maduro regime.
Appearing on “American Agenda,” on Newsmax, Cuccinelli said that the courts have no role in reviewing the president’s authority under the act and that Trump was correct to declare the gang’s presence in the United States as an invasion.
“The president’s got a lot of good points here,” Cuccinelli said. “There’s only so much judges are allowed to do. People in America are kind of used to courts resolving everything. Courts don’t get to decide everything. They don’t get to decide how the executive, i.e., the president, executes executive power so long as he stays within the boundaries of the laws.”
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