The decision arises after an precautionary action by ACLU, which argued that immigration authorities would be restarting deportations under the law of foreign enemies of 1798.
The Supreme Court of the United States blocked on Friday, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans detained in northern Texas under a 18th century law.
The Supreme Court instructed in a short decision the administration of President Donald Trump not to remove, “until new order,” Venezuelans arrested at the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Texas.
The Superior Court acted in response to a precautionary action filed by the US Union of Civil Liberties (ACLU), which claimed that immigration authorities would be restarting deportations under the 1798 Foreign Enemies Law.
O in early April, that deportations could only continue if the people about to be expelled had the opportunity to defend their cases in court and be given “a reasonable term” to contest the pending expulsions.
“We are deeply relieved that the court has temporarily blocked expulsions. These individuals were at the imminent risk of spending the rest of their lives in a brutal saved prison without ever having a fair process,” Aclu’s lawyer Lee Gelernt said by the Associated Press (AP) agency.
Authorities accused detainees of belonging to the gang Tren de Aragua
On Friday, two federal judges refused to intervene while the detainees’ lawyers took urgent legal initiatives to prevent deportation.
ACLU had already filed other resources to block the deportation of two Venezuelans detained at Bluebonnet facilities, appealing to a decision by the US courts that would prevent removal from any immigrants in the region under the law of foreign enemies.
In the precautionary action brought this Friday, ACLU warned that the immigration authorities were In the same place of being members of the Aragua Tren gang, which would make them eligible to apply the law by President Donald Trump.
The law was only invoked three times in US history, the latest of which during World War II, to expel Japanese civilians arrested in detention fields.
Trump administration claimed that the law conferred up the power to quickly remove immigrants to identify as members of the Tren de Aragua transnational gang, born in a Venezuelan prison, regardless of their immigration status.
Following a unanimous decision of the Supreme Court, on April 9, the Federal Judges of Colorado, New York and Southern Texas issued orders that prevent the expulsion of detainees under the law, until the administration provides a lawsuit and complains in court.
The US agreement with El Salvador to send detained immigrants
The United States Government has reached an agreement with El Salvador President Nayib Bukele to For the Terrorist Confinement Center (Cecot), a maximum security arrest that has been the subject of allegations of human rights abuse.
As part of the agreement, whose specific details are not known, Washington will pay El Salvador six million a year to support the Central American Prison System.
In total, the United States sent more than 200 immigrants, mostly Venezuelans, to this prison, accusing them of belonging to the Aragua Tren.
According to an analysis published last week by Bloomberg, 90% of more than 200 men that the United States arrested in El Salvador have no criminal records on American soil.
