Trump blasts SCOTUS for blocking effort to deport illegal Venezuelan ‘gang members’

A Supreme Court decision delaying deportation efforts found the president decrying the ruling on “the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and … mentally insane …”

Friday, the nation’s highest court issued a ruling regarding President Donald Trump’s use of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act that even the most conservative jurists on the bench found, at best, questionable. As injunctive relief was granted to illegal aliens aiming to stave off deportation, the GOP leader tore into what the move meant for the safety of the “cherished American public.”

“The Supreme Court has just ruled that the worst murderers, drug dealers, gang members, and even those who are mentally insane, who came into our Country illegally, are not allowed to be forced out without going through a long, protracted, and expensive Legal Process, one that will take, possibly, many years for each person, and one that will allow these people to commit many crimes before they even see the inside of a Courthouse,” expressed Trump on Truth Social.

“The result of this decision,” he went on, “will let more CRIMINALS pour into our Country, doing great harm to our cherished American public. It will also encourage other criminals to illegally enter our Country, wreaking havoc and bedlam wherever they go.”

“The Supreme Court of the United States is not allowing me to do what I was elected to do. Sleepy Joe Biden allowed MILLIONS of Criminal Aliens to come into our Country without any ‘PROCESS’ but, in order to get them out of our Country, we have to go through a long and extended PROCESS,” added the president. “In any event, thank you to Justice Alito and Justice Thomas for attempting to protect our Country. This is a bad and dangerous day for America!”

In the 7-2 ruling from the Supreme Court, the matter was sent back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals to decide the merits of the case regarding the legality of the use of the Alien Enemies Act ins seeking to deport known and suspected members of gangs and cartels deemed foreign terrorist organizations like Tren de Aragua and MS-13.

“To be clear, we decide today only that the detainees are entitled to more notice than was given on April 18,” read the majority opinion as the government had pursued an expedited process with “notice roughly 24 hours before removal, devoid of information about how to exercise due process rights to contest the removal …”

The latest action from the court came more than a month after a 5-4 ruling against the orders from U.S. District Court Judge James Boasberg, thus permitting the deportations under the AEA so long notice was “afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs.”

Not long thereafter, another 7-2 decision found the president railing over the idea that every illegal alien be granted a trial “because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years.”

Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas had dissented in that instance as well, criticizing how “literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order, and without providing any explanation for its order.”

Justice Alito blasts SCOTUS colleagues for ‘unprecedented and legally questionable’ midnight ruling on deportation https://t.co/FS95FtaM4c

— BPR (@BIZPACReview) April 21, 2025

Those facts were revisited in Alito’s latest dissent as he contended in part that the Supreme Court did not have jurisdiction over the matter and that the court should not have reviewed the case until a decision had been made on the merits by the District Court or Court of Appeals.

Noting those lower courts had only determined injunctive relief was not applicable, the justice wrote, “If the Court has gone beyond that question, it has blazed a new trail. It has plucked a case from a district court and decided important issues in the first instance. To my eyes, that looks far too much like an expansion of our original jurisdiction. I must therefore respectfully dissent.”

Many on social media agreed with Justices Alito and Thomas, and as such argued that the president should do what they believed necessary to preserve America’s national sovereignty.

Do what you have to do Mr. President. We elected you for this and we are on your side.

— Rich Fikani (@FikaniRich) May 16, 2025

Ignore it, Mr. President!

— Mr. Jonathan Harker (@sonitus_aquarum) May 16, 2025

Biden ignored the Supreme Court on forgiving 200 billion in student loans twice, Trump should ignore them or suspend habeas corpus , they are compromised.

— BJORN LANE (@BJORN987654321) May 16, 2025

Time to ignore the courts and just keep deporting.

— BKBistro (@BKBistro) May 16, 2025

Massive incentive to pass the SAVE Act and to exclude non citizens from the census. Congress needs to get to work!

— Lynn Hettrick (@LynnH76295) May 16, 2025

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Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn’t researching current events and their impacts, you’ll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.

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