Supreme Court Allows Trump Admin to Deport Venezuelan Immigrants Under Wartime Law

The appeals court rejected Trump’s request to maintain Judge James Boasberg’s order to block aliens’ deportation under the enemy laws.

The Supreme Court has granted a request for President Donald Trump to halt orders that would prevent his administration from using the Alien Enemy Law (AEA) to deport suspected members of Venezuelan gangs.

“We will grant applications and vacate (a temporary restraining order),” the court said on April 7th in a Curiam-based opinion or unsigned opinion.

Judge Sonia Sotomayor wrote the objections, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Judge Ketanji Brown Jackson. Judge Amy Connie Barrett has partially joined the Sotomayor opponents.

The decision came after the administration of the first lawsuit and the plaintiff filed a duel brief with the judiciary.

“The case presents basic questions about how to determine sensitive national security-related activities in this country,” US representative general Governor Sarah Harris told the Supreme Court.

Trump appealed Boasburg’s order to the U.S. Court of Appeals in the District of Columbia Circuit, turning it down last week to grant the relief.

The plaintiffs include a group of Venezuelan citizens, but told the court on April 1 that the district court’s block “assures that additional individuals are not rushing to cruel foreign prisons based on the AEA’s unprecedented peacetime call.”

This is a developing story and will be updated.