The White House stood firm on Wednesday in the deportation policy applied under the Foreign Enemies Act and discredited the judge who has blocked them, James Boasberg, and the magistrates in general who try to stop the actions of US President Donald Trump.

“The judges of this country are acting wrongly. We have judges who act as party activists from the court. They try to impose policies on the president of the United States. They are clearly trying to stop the agenda of this Administration, and that is unacceptable,” said presidential spokeswoman Karoline Leavitt.

At her press conference, the White House spokeswoman stressed that the orders against her and against deportations will continue to fight in the courts.

“But it is incredibly evident that there is a concerted effort on the part of the extreme left to elect judges who clearly act as partisan activists from the judiciary in an attempt to thwart this president’s agenda. We will not allow that to happen,” he warned.

In his opinion, these judges are not only “usurping the will” of the president and the Executive, “but they are undermining the will of the American public, of tens of millions of Americans who duly chose” Trump to implement such policies.

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That is why he stressed that citizens “certainly” can expect the campaign of mass deportations to continue.
Trump invoked the Foreign Enemies Act over the weekend, a 1798 regulation that has not been used since World War II, to accelerate the deportations of alleged members of the transnational criminal gang Tren de Aragua.

The president argued that the US was suffering an “invasion” of that group, although he did not present evidence, and, despite the court order, he has already sent more than 200 Venezuelans to El Salvador, which offered to imprison them.

“We do not have any specifically planned flights, but we will continue with the mass deportations. The judge in this case tries to affirm that the president does not have the executive authority to deport foreign terrorists from our territory. That constitutes a flagrant abuse of power. This judge can’t, he doesn’t have that authority,” Leavitt concluded.

The spokeswoman refused to present the evidence that justifies the alleged membership of those people to the Aragua Train and said she trusted the agents who are dedicated to that work.

Trump and his close circle increased pressure against Boasberg on Wednesday after Republican Congressman Brandon Gill initiated the impeachment process in the House of Representatives.

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In the event that this first step is validated by that hemicycle, the prospects of success for an impeachment attempt are non-existent, according to experts, since the dismissal would only become effective if two-thirds of the Senate endorse what was approved by the Lower House, which would require the support of up to 14 Democratic senators.