The U.S. Supreme Court stood in the way of President Donald Trump’s plans by refusing to move forward with deportations of a group of immigrants under the 1798 Alien Enemies Act.
The decision, a setback for Trump, upheld about 200 Venezuelan immigrants held in a Texas detention center. Who were on the verge of deportation if the broad powers of that archaic wartime legislation were invoked.
The judges sent the case back to an appeals court to decide the underlying questions. Including whether the president’s action is legal and how far in advance migrants who would be affected by the measure should be informed.
Trump – who has other challenges to his executive orders in other courts around the country. Wants to use this law to speed up deportations and avoid the reviews normally required before any such proceedings.
Conservative Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito publicly expressed their dissent.
There is a precedent the Trump administration – despite the opposition of a federal judge. They sent to a mega-prison in El Salvador more than 250 migrants, mostly Venezuelans whom, without providing evidence, the United States associates with the criminal organization (gang) Tren de Aragua.
Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act for the transfer of these migrants to the Terrorism Confinement Center in the Central American nation.
With information from Prensa Latina
Translated by Aliani Rojas Fernandez
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