US EditionConstitution’s enemies misuse 1798 law to gut due process
- President Trump is facing skepticism about his use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan gang members, as a panel declined to lift a judge's pause on deportations.
- Judge Henderson questioned Trump's claim that America is under invasion, highlighting that it does not meet the legal criteria for using the Alien Enemies Act.
- Critics argue that deportees, while possibly criminals, deserve due process rights, similar to those of any accused individual.
- The deportation actions have drawn comparisons to past injustices, underscoring the need to adhere to constitutional protections.
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REBROADCAST: Honoring Minoru Yasui, Oregonian who challenged curfew on Japanese Americans during WWII
We listen back to a conversation we first aired in 2015 with a niece of Minoru Yasui, who was posthumously awarded a Presidential Medal of Freedom by President Barack Obama for challenging a military curfew on Japanese Americans and their internment during WWII.
San Diego Union Tribune
Constitution’s enemies misuse 1798 law to gut due process
The Trump administration has for the fourth time in history invoked the war-time Alien Enemies Act of 1798 even though our nation is not at war—and its last use remains one of the most shameful episodes in American history. That involved President Franklin D. Roosevelt’s Executive Order 9066 in 1942. It was the basis for the internment of around 112,000 people of Japanese descent, 70,000 of whom were American citizens.
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