Trump backs Alito's dissent, calls for SCOTUS to 'dissolve pause' on Alien Enemies Act deportations

President Donald Trump called for the Supreme Court to lift a pause that has been placed on deportations that the Trump administration is trying to conduct using the Alien Enemies Act. He backed Justice Samuel Alito's dissent on the ruling that took place over the weekend. 

Trump wrote online, "I’m doing what I was elected to do, remove criminals from our Country, but the Courts don’t seem to want me to do that. My team is fantastic, doing an incredible job, however, they are being stymied at every turn by even the US Supreme Court, which I have such great respect for, but which seemingly doesn’t want me to send violent criminals and terrorists back to Venezuela, or any other Country, for that matter — People that came here illegally!"



"The Courts are intimidated by the Radical Left who are, 'playing the Ref.' Great Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito correctly wants to dissolve the pause on deportations. He is right on this! If we don’t get these criminals out of our Country, we are not going to have a Country any longer. We cannot give everyone a trial, because to do so would take, without exaggeration, 200 years. We would need hundreds of thousands of trials for the hundreds of thousands of Illegals we are sending out of the Country. Such a thing is not possible to do. What a ridiculous situation we are in. MAKE AMERICA GREAT AGAIN!" the president added in his statement.

The comments come after the deportation case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia has caught national attention to the point where Democratic lawmakers are attempting to meet with El Salvador in an attempt to have the alleged MS-13 gang member released. His deportation was carried out under the Alien Enemies Act, which has usually been used in wartime.

The case for Abrego Garcia and other deportations has made its way to the Supreme Court, where the ACLU over the weekend filed an emergency appeal to the court, arguing that immigration authorities were moving to restart deportations under the act.

The majority of the justices wrote in an opinion that the Trump administration must "not to remove any member of the putative class of detainees from the United States until further order of this court." Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas dissented.

Alito wrote that he took issue with the court for "hastily and prematurely granted unprecedented emergency relief” in the case. 

Dozens of gang members were deported to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act earlier last month, but the ACLU brought the lawsuit to block the deportations of Venezuelan nationals that were being held at a Texas detention center.