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Homan’s mic-drop moment echoed a similar incident days earlier when he casually ignored screaming protesters in New York—while chomping on an apple. This time, he didn’t even need a snack to highlight the absurdity of the left’s complaints.
Despite the reporter’s weak attempt at a gotcha question, the claim wasn’t entirely false. Trump is indeed using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport dangerous illegal alien gang members. But here’s the problem for the left: the law is still valid and effective—and it’s saving American lives.
Under this law, Trump has deported hundreds of members of the Tren de Aragua gang, a violent criminal organization responsible for heinous crimes, including the brutal sexual assaults and murders of American women like Laken Riley and Jocelyn Nungaray. Instead of allowing these predators to roam free in the U.S., they’ve been sent straight to a high-security prison in El Salvador.
The Alien Enemies Act, signed into law by President John Adams, gives the president the authority to remove foreign nationals deemed a threat to the United States. Yet leftists are now pretending that laws have expiration dates simply because they’re old.
Homan’s point was simple but devastating: if laws were automatically invalid just because they were passed centuries ago, then the entire U.S. legal system would collapse.
By the left’s logic, should we also toss out the Great Society welfare programs or the unionization laws passed during the Progressive era? Should we pretend the Constitution itself no longer applies because it was ratified in 1788—only a few years before the Alien Enemies Act? Of course not.
The left isn’t really concerned about the age of the law. They just don’t want it enforced because it works. There is no legitimate argument against deporting violent illegal alien gang members, so they’re grasping at straws, hoping the public won’t notice how weak their position is.
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Homan wasn’t about to waste time debating a point that doesn’t hold water. And he was right—because there is no reasonable response to the fact that enforcing immigration laws protects American citizens.
Leftists can whine about the age of the law all they want, but facts don’t change: Trump is using an existing, legal, and effective measure to rid the country of some of the worst criminals imaginable. The real question is, why does the left have a problem with that?
