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ACLU ‘ready to return to the courts’ to thwart Trump immigration agenda

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The American Civil Liberties Union was the biggest legal thorn in President-elect Donald Trump's side during his first term.

In four years , the ACLU filed 434 legal actions against the Trump administration over the ways in which government proposals would cut off and interfere with the rights and liberties of U.S. citizens and immigrants, regardless of whether they have entered the country legally.

A former immigration judge said he anticipates the ACLU will lead the charge among opposition groups.

Trump has promised to "carry out the largest domestic deportation operation in American history," the ACLU says.

He has also threatened to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to "facilitate a draconian mass deportation program," it says.

Trump 's other purported policies are likely to face legal action from the ACLU , including an executive order to reimplement the Remain in Mexico policy.