Supreme Court blocks new deportations of of Venezuelans under 18th-century wartime law Alien Enemies Act

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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.

Venezuelan migrants react after arriving at Simón Bolivar International Airport after deportation from the United States on April 11, 2025. Reuters

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.

The Supreme Court had said at the beginning of April that deportations could only be the ones extended had the opportunity to argue their case in the court and were given “reasonable time” to challenge the pending motives.

“We are deeply relieved that the Court has temporarily blocked the removals. These individuals were imminent in danger of spending the rest of their lives on a brutal saving prison that had once had some due process,” said ACLU lawyer.

On Friday, two federal judges refused to intervene as lawyers for men, launched a desperate legal campaign to avoid deportation.

The 5th Circuit Court of the United States has not yet acted.

The official portrait of the tasks of the United States Supreme Court on October 7, 2022. Getty images

One of the judges said the case raised legitimate groups, but that he could not issue an order.

The ACLU had already seduced to block deportations of two Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet installation and sought an order that prohibits the removals of any immigrant in the region under the law of alien enemies.

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.

After the order of the Unanimous Superior Court on April 9, federal judges in Colorado, New York and Southern Texas issued orders immediately that leave the elimination of detainees under the AEA until the administration provides a process for the issue to make claims in court.

But there was no leg problem in the Texas area that covers Bluebonnet, which is located 24 miles north of Abilene at the north end 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 included affidavits of three separate immigration lawyers who said that their customers in Bluebonnet received paperwork that indicate that Aragua train members and could be deported on Saturday.

Venezuela’s military guards are keeping in Maiquetia, Venezuela, on April 11, 2025. Reuters

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.

Gererne said at a hearing on Friday night before the district judge James E. Boasberg 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.

Police officers make gestures after the migrant flight on April 11, 2025. Reuters

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.

The American district judge James E. Boasberg represents a portrait at the Federal Palace of E. Barrett Prettyman in Washington DC on March 16, 2023. AP

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 any Saturday was not given a taste, but the National Security Department said he reserved the right to eliminate people.

ICE said he would not comment on the litigation.

The armed Venezuelan military lasts the arrival of migrants from Venezuela in the South American nation on April 11, 2025. Reuters

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 Venezuelans subject to Trump’s Alien Enemies Law have been sent to El Salvador and housed in their notorious main prison.

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