ACLU attorney blasts Trump's deportation of Venezuelans

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00:00At a minimum, there has to be due process for people to show that they're not even members

00:12of the gang.

00:13There are reports now coming out that many, many of the people that were sent to El Salvador

00:18are not actually members of the gang, are named plaintiffs, dispute that they were members

00:22of the gang.

00:23And so I think what we're going to see are many, many people being falsely accused of

00:27being a member of this gang.

00:28And what that means is they could end up in a Salvadoran prison for a year, two years

00:32of their whole life.

00:33And I think for those of you who have seen the video of how the men were treated when

00:36they got off the plane and the human rights reports about Salvadoran prisons generally,

00:41they're going to be in real trouble.

00:42But what I tried to stress to the judge today is that that's not enough just to give them

00:47a chance to show that they're not a member of the gang.

00:50The Alien Enemies Act should not be used at all against the gang.

00:53It is very dangerous.

00:55Every nationality and ethnic group in the United States has some organized crime gang.

01:03And so that all of a sudden, if the president's power were unreviewable under this act, then

01:09anybody could be termed an alien enemy, saying you're a part of this gang or that gang, and

01:15we're going to send you to a Salvadoran prison.

01:17So I think the implications of the government's position are staggering.

01:23Have you been in touch with the people who were sent to El Salvador?

01:27Do you have any idea what sort of conditions they all did?

01:29Well, we have no way of connecting with the people in El Salvador.

01:32We're connecting with families, but obviously they can't connect with people.

01:36I mean, not only are the conditions brutal, but they're incommunicado now.

01:42What we heard in the courtroom today, today they seem to make a concession that these

01:46people are entitled to some type of due process.

01:49They weren't denying them.