Kari Lake to Newsmax: Alien Enemies Act Common Sense

Kari Lake to Newsmax: Alien Enemies Act Common Sense

Kari Lake to Newsmax: Alien Enemies Act Common Sense

Kari Lake, former Arizona gubernatorial candidate and current nominee to lead Voice of America, applauded President Donald Trump’s plan to invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as a means to speed up deportations, telling Newsmax it’s another example of “promises kept.”

“You know what? They had way more common sense back then,” Lake told “Rob Schmitt Tonight” on Thursday.

Trump reportedly will invoke the law as soon as Friday, a move designed to speed up the removal of certain illegal immigrants. The act allows the president to detain, relocate, or deport non-citizens from a country considered an enemy of the U.S. during wartime, and it has been upheld by the Supreme Court for use after wartime.

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