Attorney General Pam Bondi has unleashed a blistering emergency motion with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the D.C. Circuit, demanding an immediate stay of an “outrageous overreach” by Obama-appointed District Judge James E. “Jeb” Boasberg.
The motion, filed early Saturday morning, accuses Boasberg of sabotaging the Trump administration’s national security agenda by issuing an “unauthorized” Temporary Restraining Order (TRO) that blocks the removal of dangerous illegal aliens tied to the notorious Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua (TdA)—a designated Foreign Terrorist Organization (FTO).
The explosive filing accuses Boasberg of acting without jurisdiction, without evidence, and without even hearing from the government—rushing to issue a 14-day TRO just hours after five anonymous Venezuelan plaintiffs filed a class-action complaint.
These plaintiffs, detained in Texas, claim they fear being wrongly swept up in Trump’s rumored plan to invoke the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to expel TdA members.
Their lawsuit, J.G.G. v. Trump, seeks to upend Trump’s lawful enforcement of immigration laws, arguing that invoking the Alien Enemies Act—a wartime measure historically used to remove hostile foreign nationals—is somehow “unprecedented” and “unlawful” during “peacetime.”
According to the government’s filing, Tren de Aragua is a transnational gang with deep ties to Venezuela’s socialist regime, operating as a de facto paramilitary force conducting criminal operations across the United States.
The gang’s members have been linked to violent crimes, human trafficking, and drug smuggling, prompting the Trump administration to invoke the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to facilitate their swift removal.
The motion reviewed by The Gateway Pundit states:
The Maduro regime coordinates with and relies on TdA to “sow violence and discord throughout the United States,” including through gang-related crimes and violent attacks such as the murder of Laken Riley in Georgia in February 2024.
Given how significantly TdA has become intertwined in the fabric of Venezuela’s state structures, it is a de facto arm of the Maduro regime. In such a case, TdA becomes indistinguishable from Venezuela, and the two may be folded together for purposes of invoking Section 21.
As an independent rationale, TdA also operates as a de facto government in the areas in which it is operating. It is well known that the Maduro regime is closely linked to narco-terrorism; a major component of that is “corrupt[ing] the institutions of Venezuela” to flood the United States with drugs “to undermine . . . the wellbeing of our nation” and that Maduro “deliberately deploy[s] cocaine as a weapon.”
In those areas where it is operating, TdA is in fact operating as a criminal state, independent or in place of the normal civil society and government.Given its governance and organizational structure, as well as its de facto control over parts of Venezuela in which it operates with impunity as an effective state unto itself, it would be well within the discretion of the President to determine it constitutes a foreign “government” for purposes of invoking Section 21.
Second, TdA is clearly perpetrating an invasion or a predatory incursion into the United States. Although the definition of “invasion” most easily applies to a militaryentry and occupation of a country, the accepted definition of that term is far broader.
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