On Sunday, White House border czar Tom Homan defended the Trump administration’s deportation of alleged migrant gang members, emphasizing that the president is acting within federal law and will not ignore court orders.

Homan also addressed critics who expressed concerns about due process rights after President Donald Trump invoked the seldom-used Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to facilitate the removal of 240 alleged members of Tren de Aragua and 21 alleged MS-13 members to a high-security prison in El Salvador.

What’s more, he pushed back during an interview with ABC on claims that the administration had denied the gang members, whom Trump has designated as terrorists, their due process rights.

“Due process? What was Laken Riley’s due process?” Homan said on ABC’s “This Week,” referring to a nursing student who was murdered by a Venezuelan illegal immigrant. “What were all these young women that were killed and raped by members of TdA? What was their due process? How about the young lady that was burned alive on the subway? Where was her due process?”

“The bottom line is that plane was full of people designed as terrorists,” Homan added. “Every Venezuelan on that flight was a TdA member based on numerous criminal investigations, on intelligence reports and a lot of work by ICE officers.

“They were given due process according to the laws on the books. You see, that’s the difference between the Trump administration and the Biden administration — we actually are using the laws on the books to enforce immigration laws and secure the border at the highest level it has ever been,” he noted further.

The Trump administration’s aggressive deportation efforts have sparked what his supporters see as a manufactured constitutional clash between the White House and the Judiciary.

Citing the Alien Enemies Act and Title 8 of the U.S. Code, Trump ordered the deportation of migrants last week, labeling them as members of the Tren de Aragua gang (TdA) and designating them as terrorists involved in an “invasion” or “predatory incursion” into the United States.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered that the planes be grounded and any flights already in the air be turned around. Despite this, the Trump administration proceeded with the flights to El Salvador, where the U.S. is paying $20,000 per person annually to house the migrants in a maximum-security prison.