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POWER 1/2 HOUR: BECOMING A BETTER ALLY
President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act, a 227-year-old wartime law, to detain and deport immigrants without due process. But that’s not all. In what may be the Trump administration’s most flagrant defiance of the law, it looks likely that authorities willfully defied a D.C. federal judge’s temporary restraining order, which mandated, in no uncertain terms, the cancellation of any planned deportation flights under the Alien Enemies Act — and the return of any deportation flights that had already departed but not yet landed.
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