The article discusses the pressures faced by the Trump administration regarding its mass deportation strategy, particularly highlighting a filled immigration detention capacity and a significant backlog in immigration courts. With over 32,000 arrests made shortly after the administration's start and the bureaucratic difficulties that follow, there is speculation on whether the administration might invoke the Alien Enemies Act. This act, which allows for detaining individuals without the usual due process, could facilitate the administration's deportation plans but raises legal implications by bypassing traditional judicial proceedings.
Whenever there shall be a declared war... all natives... of the hostile nation... shall be liable to be apprehended, restrained, secured and removed, as alien enemies.
The act... provides for none, and that's what makes it so attractive to the Trump administration with its plans for large-scale deportations.
Trump is the victim of his own success... the need to provide due process... is colliding with the goal of clearing millions of illegals out of the U.S.
Federal officials have already filled their 47,600 available beds for detainees, and are working with federal prison services to increase bed space.
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