A federal appeals court judge grilled a U.S. Justice Department attorney’s argument Monday that the Trump administration should be permitted to keep deporting Venezuelan nationals under an 18th-century wartime law as a legal challenge unfolds, contending that Nazis were given more rights to contest their removal during World War II.
“There were planeloads of people. There were no procedures in place to notify people,” said Judge Patricia Millett of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit. “Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemies Act when this happened here, where the proclamation required the promulgation of regulations and they had hearing boards before people were removed.”