Tom Homan vows not to stop deportations after judge blocks Trump from using Alien Enemies Act

‘Border czar’ Tom Homan says the Trump administration’s mass deportations will not stop — even after a federal judge blocked the president from invoking the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members without a hearing.The Trump administration flew roughly 250 alleged migrant gangbangers to El Salvador’s mega prison Saturday, defying US District Judge James Boasberg order to turn the planes around.But Homan told Fox News Monday morning the Trump administration isn’t going to follow the order.“They’re not gonna stop us.We made a promise to the American people, President Trump has made a promise to the American people, we’re gonna make this country safe again,” said a stone-faced Homan.“We’re not stopping.
I don’t care what the judges think, I don’t care what the left thinks, we’re coming,” he added.The flights transported 238 members of the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua, along with 21 MS-13 gangbangers, Salvadoran President Nayib Bukele revealed Sunday morning.Among the deportees were migrants accused of kidnapping, sexual abuse of a child, aggravated assault, prostitution and aggravated assault of a cop, a senior administration official told The Post.However, officials did not provide names for any of the detainees.Once in El Salvador, the suspected gangbangers were handed over to dozens of armed commandos who swiftly moved them to the Terrorism Confinement Center (CECOT) with their heads down and hands and ankles in shackles, according to dramatic video posted by Bukele.Boasberg ordered the administration to immediately halt deportations made under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, which was last used during World War II to hold Japanese, German and Italian immigrants in internment camps.“Any plane containing these folks that is going to take off or is in the air needs to be returned to the United States however that is accomplished,” Boasberg wrote, according to the Washington Post.“Make su...