In its opening Last Monday, President Donald Trump made a deep excavation in the archives to detect a law that would empower his campaign against immigrants. “By emphasizing the act of the stranger’s enemies of 1798,” Trump Announced“I will instruct my government to complete federal and state law enforcement agencies to eliminate the presence of all foreign groups and criminal networks in US soil, including our cities and internal cities. And use immense power. “
An authority of the war time that allows the president to detain or deport the enemy citizens of the “local” and enemy nation, the Allen Enemy Act has been summoned only three times in US history, each of the major conflicts. During: War of War, First World War, and World War II. It is The most known is For its role in Japanese prison during World War II, a shameful part of American history for which Congress And Several Speech Is Apologize.
According to experts, the alien enemy act provides powers to detain or deport foreign nationals and are subjected to abuse. Archaeological law is discriminated against immigrants on the basis of their citizens’ country and more extensively on their lineage. It does not require any clear doorstep, nor is there any proper protection of the action, like the right of a hearing or the right to appeal. “The presidents, the Congress, and the judiciary – and it has been rejected so aggressively – and is considered one of the most shameful episodes in American history and then resurrected?” Catrine Yun Ebright was asked about the Brennan Center’s Liberty and National Security Program and the most important expert in the Elin Enemy Act. “President Trump should leave strangers’ enemies in the history of history.”
When the last time the law was requested in World War II, the alien Enemy Act provided legal authority to imprison Japanese, German and Italian non -Citizens. This allows the president to target people Because of their identityTheir behavior or national security is not a threat. Last week, Representatives Alan Omar, D Man, and San Mazi Herono, D Hawaii, re -presented the enemy act, the legislature that would cancel the AEA.
“We cannot allow ancient laws to activate discrimination, which damages the communities of immigrants,” he said. The alien Enemy Act has been used to completely target immigrants based on their nationality, which has led to shameful chapters in our history. “President Trump’s new administration is also threatening to clearly detain the law and use it for the deportation of immigrants, which is a completely national original act. Cancellation is an essential step towards the formation of justice and sympathy -linked immigration system.
Stranger The Act is the last part of the notorious alien and rebellion of the 18th century, which made it illegal to criticize the president or the Congress, and the founders expressed it. Thomas Jefferson and James Madison.
In 1941, President Franklin de Roosevelt used the Allen enemy act to arrest and detain citizens of Japan, Germany and Italy without any action in the “Internet” camps of the Justice Department. In 1942 he followed it with Executive Order 9066, which eventually forced 120,000 men, women, and Japanese breeds – about 70 70,000 US citizens from their homes and concentration centers Join. Developed as a national security issue, its roots were in racism and zenophobia. “We want to keep him a white man’s country,” said Bert Miller, Attorney General of Adho. Point. “All Japanese [should] Put in concentration camps for the rest of the war.
In the next decades, Roosevelt’s successors strongly condemned the Internet. “This action was done without a trial, without a jury. It was completely based on,” President Ronald Reagan Observed In 1988, Japanese Americans have to sign a bill to provide reproduction of the imprisonment of the Americans, which they considered a “mistake”. That same year, the Congress admitted that the policy was “based on”Failure of racial prejudice, combat hysteria and political leadership. Later, it was vowed that German non -Sitzins were targeted.Based on their lineage“And the Congress described the Italian internship as”Basic injustice.
In 1990, nine former detainees of US -imprisoned camps were paid for the first, 000 20,000 Formal apology Signed by President George HW Bush, who announced: “We can never fully correct past mistakes. But we can take a clear stance for justice and acknowledge that during World War II. Serious injustice was done with Japanese Americans. Is continued The tradition “confirmed the Federal Government’s formal apology from the Japanese Americans. Nadeoto Barie Uni – ‘Don’t let it happen again.’
On the occasion of the opening day, Trump Signed an executive order In consultation with the Secretary of State, the Attorney General and the Secretary of Homeland Security, within two weeks, directing, “for the implementation of any decision to demand the Act of Stranger Enemies.” The White House too Announced The president will begin the “cartel nomination process, including Venezuela’s violent group train de Aragua, as foreign terrorist organizations and use the alien enemy act to remove them.” Last year, the Biden administration Designated Train de Aragua is equivalent to MS 13 from El Salvador and Mafia -like camera in Italy as an international criminal organization.
White House spokesman Taylor Rogers acknowledged intercept questions about Trump’s decision -making process on the Alien Enemy Act but did not provide answers before publication.
Abbott, who has written widely on the AEA for Brennan Center, note that during the First World War and II, this law was used to target anyone “dangerous” – However, this is a position without praise. “There is no clear doorstep to show that there is really something dangerous. The Allen Enemy Act has no proper process that will ensure that Venezuelan has been detained and deported, in fact, has a criminal history or a danger of public safety. When the president considers anyone dangerous, the law does not provide protection for any action. There is no guarantee of hearing, the right to appeal, or the right to advise.
The Allen Enemy Act not only covers the citizens of foreign fighters, but also includes all its “locals”, including those who were born in the designated nation but they abandoned their citizenship. And now there is no allegiance to this state. “If the president announced that all Venezuela, who did not receive US citizenship, are subject to detention or deportation, then it is under the scope of the alien enemy Act,” said Ebright. “So it will be discriminatory based on citizenship that someone has, but at the place of the birth of a person, in essence, their lineage.”
“This does not allow him to target the Sanalava cartel, allowing it to target all Mexican.”
Omar echoed the intercept in an email. “The alien enemy act targets people based on their nationality, not based on their behavior,” said Minnesota representative. “This does not allow them to target Train de Aragwa, allowing it to target all Venezuela. This does not allow him to target the Senala Cartel, targeting all Mexican. Allows to make a green card holder.
Trump’s throat The Allen Enemy Act has shocked and sought the victims of the World War II and their children. “I miss my parents every day, but I am thankful that they are not living to experience it. I really didn’t expect to see it in my life,” Mike Asi said, whose mother’s The family was imprisoned in the camps and whose father’s family fled the West Coast to avoid detention. Ashi’s co -founders Tsuru for solidarityJapanese American detention camps, a member of their descendants and allies, formed during the first term of Trump to oppose immigrants’ detention. He said that this community is still dealing with the internal experience of internal experience. “If you want to understand a deep Japanese American emotional and psychological reaction, you have to look at our history,” Ashi told Intercept. “We had a group of people who were targeted because of our generation, was forcibly removed at gunpoint, took away our rights, and were imprisoned for years.”
Despite accepting the act of alien enemies, Trump has acknowledged the injustice of Japanese Americans, expressing sympathy with Japanese Americans in the 1940s. Last year, Trump fired on January 6, 2021, comparing Japanese Americans forcibly removing the allegations of riots on the US capital, comparing Japanese Americans. Trump Trump Said In an interview with Conservative observer Dan Bongino in October. “Perhaps during World War II, the Japanese, clearly. They were also held.
In his first day, Trump approved Kleimani More than 1,500 people Charged in the January 6 coup, which includes more than 200 The crime proved to be Attacking the police.
Ashi expressed his anger over the comparison of both Trump’s groups. “This is extremely unpleasant and utterly invasive for Donald Trump to create a connection to the Japanese Americans, who were forcibly removed from their palaces during World War II, detained in American detention camps , Their civil liberties were denied and their human rights were stripped of the US government in a violent coup. They were not the victims.
Abbott noted, that over the past decades, not only regretting the official apology for the Japanese imprisonment and for moral reasons and in recognition of past violations of constitutional rights, but also ” The need to discourage the presence of injustice and violations is cited in the future of civil liberties, “he said. “They mean to instruct future generations to never do it again.”
The White House did not provide answers to questions, citing experts’ concerns on the alien enemies Act, especially the ownership of a law and the use of a law with such a dark history and whose use has been rejected by the previous presidents.
Omar has warned that “the alien enemy act is a zenophobic past. It is a strict law that gives presidents the authority to target immigrants without any action,” Omar warned that the 18th century of Repeating the law will be another moral stain on our country.
