An emergency hearing is being held Monday afternoon over the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport around 300 alleged Venezuelan gang members without a trial. Deputy Director of the ACLU Immigrants’ Rights Project Lee Gelernt joins Ana Cabrera while on his way to that very hearing.

Presidents are given the extraordinary power by the 227-year-old law to order the arrest, detention and deportation of noncitizens who are 14 years or older and come from countries staging an "invasion or predatory incursion" of the U.