Katherine Yon Ebright: Donald Trump plans to exploit the Alien Enemies Act. The courts should stop him.

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

43% : Trump could even seek to detain and deport immigrants who are lawfully present in this country, including green card holders who have lived in the United States for decades and have children who are U.S. citizens.
41% : It could allow Trump to bypass regular immigration law, which contains protections for asylum-seekers and affords basic procedural rights to undocumented individuals who have lived in the United States for years.
32% : Instead of using the Alien Enemies Act to respond to a real invasion, however, Trump proposes to exploit the law to address a purely rhetorical "migrant invasion" allegedly fueled by drug cartels south of the U.S.-Mexico border.
31% : Trump and his advisers claim that the same law would permit the detention and deportation of millions of noncitizens currently in the United States.
18% : The threat that Trump will abuse the Alien Enemies Act to perpetrate another mass violation of constitutional rights demands decisive action.
16% : As part of his plans for mass deportation, Trump has promised to dust off the Alien Enemies Act, last used by President Franklin D. Roosevelt in World War II to hold 31,000 noncitizens of Japanese, German and Italian descent in internment camps based on their ancestry.

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