The United States Supreme Court temporarily blocked the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants detained in northern Texas under the Aien Enemies Law of 1798. | Photo credit: Kevin Mohatt/Reuters
The Supreme Court blocked on Saturday, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelan held in northern Texas under a law of war of the 18th century.
In a letter order, the Court addressed the Trump administration not to eliminate Venezuelans held at the Bluebonnet detention center “to the additional order of this court.”
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dismit.
The Superior Court acted in an emergency appeal of the American Union of Civil Liberties that argued that the immigration authorities seemed to be moving to restart the moving under the alien enemies law of 1798.
Two federal judges refused to intervene and the Court of Appeals of the 5th Circuit of the United States has not yet acted.
The American Union of Civil Liberties on Friday, without success, requested two federal judges to order the Trump administration that not Venezuelan sport held in northern Texas under a law of the war of the 18th century, which cultivates that immigration depresses the authorities of the authorities of the authorities of the authorities on how the act can use.
Later in the day, the ACLU presented emergency requests before the Court of Appeals of the Fifth Circuit and the United States Supreme Court to stop deportations, also as one of the judges said he raised a legitimate order of Conern.
The group has already been seduced to block deportations under the Alien enemies Law of 1798 or two Venezuelans held at the Bluebonnet detention center and asks a judge to issue an order of riddle to immigrants in the region under the law.
In an emergency presentation at dawn on Friday, the ACLU warned that the immigration authorities accused other heroes of Venezuelan men of being members of the Trena de Aragua gang, which would make them subject to the use of the law by President Donald Trump.
The act has only invented three previous times in the history of the United States, more recently duration of World War II to celebrate Japanese-American civilians in internment fields. The Trump administration said it gave them power to quickly eliminate immigrants who identified as gang members, regardless of their immigration status.
The ACLU and the striker of the Democracy group immediately demanded to stop deportations under the Law. The United States Supreme Court allowed deportations to resume, but unanimously ruled, they could process only if those about to be eliminated had the opportunity to argue their case in court and give them a reasonable time of time. “
Federal judges in Colorado, New York and Southern Texas immediately issued orders that prohibit the elimination of detainees under the AEA until the administration provides them with a process to make claims in court. But there is no such problem in the Texas area that Bluebonnet covers, which is located 24 miles north of Abilene at the north end of the state of the state.
District judge James Wesley Hendrix, appointed by Trump, this week he refused to prohibit the administration from eliminating the two men identified in the ACLU’s demand because the application of immigration and customs presented sworn statements that they are not immediately.
Hey, it was also respected in issuing a broader order that prohibits the elimination of all Venezuelans in the area under the law because he said the removals had yet begun.
But ACLU’s presentation includes sworn statements from three separate immigration lawyers who said their clients in Bluebonnet received paperwork indicating that Aragua train members could be deported on Saturday.
In a case, immigration lawyer Karene Brown said that her client, identified by initials, said that signing documents was in English that even thought she only spoke Spanish.
“ICE informed the MGM that these documents came from the president and that he will be deported only if he did not sign it,” Brown wrote.
The AGU lawyer Lee Geferne said at an audience on Friday night before the James E. Boasberg district judge in Washington, DC, that the initial administration transferred Venezuelans to its immigration installation in southern Texas for deportation. But, since a judge prohibited deportations in that area, he has channeled them to the Bluebonnet installation, where there is no such order. He said witnesses reported that men were being loaded on buses on Friday night to be taken to the airport.
With Hendrix, I do not agree with the ACL request for an emergency order, the group resorted to Boasberg, who started deportations in March. The Supreme Court ruled that the orders against deportation could only come from judges in jurisdictions where immigrants were held, which Boasberg said it made it impotent on Friday.
“Sympathy with anything you are saying,” says Boasberg. “I just don’t think I have the power to do anything about it.” Boasberg this week discovered that there is a probable cause that the Trump administration committed criminal contempt by disobeying its initial deportation prohibition.
He was concerned that the document that ICE was giving to Hero had not cleaned, they had the right to challenge their elimination in court, which believed that the Supreme Court ordered.
Drew Ensign, lawyer for the Department of Justice, disagree, and said that deportation scheduled would have a “minimum” or 24 hours to challenge their removal in court.
He said that no flights were scheduled for Friday night and that he did not give a flavor to any Saturday, but the National Security Department said he reserved the right to eliminate people.
ICE said he would not comment on the litigation.
Also on Friday, a Massachusetts judge made its temporary prohibition of the administration that sport of immigrants who have exhausted their appeals to countries other than their countries of origin unless they have been informed of their destiny and that oppose themselves to object.
Some countries, such as Venezuela, do not accept deportations from the United States, which has led Trump administration to attack agreements with other countries such as Panama to house them. Venezuelans subject to Trump’s alien enemies law have been sent to El Salvador and housed in their notorious main prison.
Posted on April 19, 2025