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'Incredibly troublesome': Judge grills DOJ over alleged gang member deportations

Alleged members of the Venezuelan criminal organization Tren de Aragua who were deported by the U.S. government, are detained at the Terrorism Confinement Center in Tecoluca, El Salvador in a photo obtained Mar. 16, 2025.

President Donald Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport more than 200 alleged Venezuelan gang members is an "incredibly troublesome and problematic" application of the centuries-old wartime law, U.S. District Judge James Boasberg said during a court hearing Friday, in his strongest rebuke to date of the Trump administration's deportation actions.

Trump last Saturday invoked the Alien Enemies Act -- a wartime authority used to deport noncitizens with little-to-no due process -- by arguing that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is a "hybrid criminal state" that is invading the U.S.

"I agree the policy ramifications of this are incredibly troublesome and problematic and concerning, and I agree it's an unprecedented and expanded use of an act that has been used ... in the War of 1812, World War I and World War II, when there was no question there was a declaration of war and who the enemy was," Boasberg said at Friday's hearing.

The judge noted that the Trump administration's arguments about the extent of the president's powers are "awfully frightening" and a "long way from"