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One of the manufacturing problems of a series of cheeky and hyperbolic claims is that it can be difficult to keep everyone in your team on the same wavelength.
And few Trump administration claims were as cheeky as the idea that the Venezuelan government has designed an invasion of gang members in the United States. This assertion is the basis of the controversial efforts of the administration to quickly expel a group of people who, according to him, were members of the Gang Tren in Aragua – without regular procedure.
But one of the central figures responsible for repelling such invasions apparently did not obtain the memo.
During a Senate hearing on Wednesday, the president of heads of staff retired from Lieutenant-General Dan Caine acknowledged that the United States did not currently face such a threat.
“I think that in this stage, I do not see any person sponsored by the foreign state invading,” said Caine in response to democratic questioning.
This may look like common sense; Of course, the United States is not currently under invasion by a foreign government. You would probably have heard something saying about it.
But the administration said – on several occasions and in court – that it was.
When Trump invoked the Act extraterrestrial enemies To quickly expel migrants without regular procedure, this law required such a foreign “invasion” or “predatory foray” to make its move legal. And Trump said that was what was going on.
“The result is a hybrid criminal state which perpetuates an invasion and a predatory foray into the United States and which represents a substantial danger for the United States,” said proclamation of Trump.
He added that Tren of Aragua’s actions came “both directly and in the direction, underground or otherwise, from the Maduro regime to Venezuela”.
The White House therefore said that Tren de Aragua was acting in concert with the Maduro regime to invade; Caine now says that “people sponsored by the state” are not invaded.
Some have reported Caine’s comment as Sable Trump complaint of a foreign “invasion” in Los Angeles. Trump regularly applied this word to undocumented migrants.
But the inconsistency is undoubtedly more important with regard to Trump’s claims on Venezuelan migrants.
Perhaps the administration would argue that Trump interrupted the invasion and that it no longer happens; Caine spoke to the present.
Caine continued to quote other people who may have different opinions.
“But I will be aware of the fact that there have been border problems over time, and I get back to DHS which manages the border along the contiguous outline of the nation,” he said.
But if an invasion was happening recently, it seems weird not to mention it. And if the invasion is over, this would seem to reduce the need to continue to try to use the act of extraterrestrial enemies.
The Ministry of Internal Security is certainly not in the camp without invasion. Wednesday, dhs Published on Facebook An image with Uncle Sam that reads as follows: “Report all foreign invaders” with a phone number for ice.
Asked about the image and if the use of the term “foreign invaders” had been used previously, DHS pointed to CNN to a certain number of messages from the deputy chief of the White House, Stephen Miller, using terms such as “invading” or “invaders” when they refer to undocumented immigrants.
Many figures from the Trump administration went to fight for this statement.
The white house press secretary Karoline Leavitt said shortly after Trump’s proclamation that the members of the Aragua gangs “were sent here by the hostile regime of Maduro to Venezuela”.
National National Security Councilor Michael Waltz said Maduro emptied his prisons “indirectly to influence and attack the United States”.
We quickly learned that the intelligence community had Venezuela concluded had not directed the gang. But Secretary of State Marco Rubio was held near Trump’s complaint.
“Yes, this is their evaluation,” said Rubio last month about the intelligence community. “”They are mistaken. “”
The border of the Trump administration, Tsar Tom Homan, said that the gang was an “arm of the Maduro regime” and that the Maduro regime was “involved in sending thousands of venezuelans to this country to disturb it”.
The question of the alleged involvement of Venezuela was not dealt with by the courts. A Series of judges have moved to block the law on extraterrestrial enemies of the administration, but they generally ruled in this way because of the absence of a “invasion” or a “predatory foray” – without diving a lot in the more complex question of whether such a thing could somehow have links with the Maduro government.
One of the judges to govern in this way was a named against TrumpAmerican district judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr.
Thus, the intelligence community and a lot of judges – one of which has appointed Trump – refuted the assertion underlying this historic effort to put aside a regular procedure.
And now the man that Trump has installed because his general general seems to have also undermined him.