The Supreme Court of the United States temporarily suspended on Saturday, 19, deportations of any Venezuelans kept in northern Texas under a law of war of the eighteenth century.
In a brief order, the court ordered the Trump government not deporting Venezuelans detained at the Bluebonnet Detention Center “until the new order of this Court.” Judges Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito disagreed.
The Superior Court acted from an emergency appeal from the US Union for civil freedoms, claiming that immigration authorities were mobilizing to restart deportations under the Law of Foreign Enemies, 1798.
The Supreme Court had said in early April that deportations could continue only if those about to be deported had a chance to defend their case in court and receive “a reasonable time” to contest.
Last month, US President Donald Trump summoned the law of foreign enemies to arrest alleged members of the Aragua’s Tren gang and deport them for maximum security arrest in El Salvador.
So far, the law had only been used during the 1812 war against the British Empire and its Canadian colonies and in the two world wars.
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Venezuelan lawyers previously deported insist that their clients were not members of the Aragua Tren and maintain that they did not commit crimes and were widely targeted by tattoos.
Trump, who promised during his campaign to expel millions of undocumented immigrants, accused Venezuela of “perpetrating an invasion” from the United States through the entry into the country of alleged members of the Aragua Tren gang. The White House did not issue an immediate demonstration about the decision. /AFP and AP
