An Obama-appointed judge on a Washington, D.C., appeals court Monday brought up the U.S. government’s treatment of Nazis amid World War II under the Alien Enemies Act in a hearing about President Donald Trump’s deportation of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
Judge Patricia Millett, in noting the Trump administration’s process for removing alleged members of the gang Tren de Aragua, drew a negative comparison with the Nazi precedent.
“There were planeloads of people. There were no procedures in place to notify people,” Millett, whom President Barack Obama appointed to the court, noted. “Nazis got better treatment under the Alien Enemy Act than has happened here.” She noted “they had hearing boards before people were removed.”
“Yet here, there is nothing about hearing boards. There is no regulation, and nothing is adopted by the agency officials…
