US EditionAppeals court rules Trump cannot use Alien Enemies Act to deport members of Venezuelan gang
- On Tuesday, a group of three judges from the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals decided that President Trump is not permitted to invoke the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to accelerate the deportation of suspected members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.
- This ruling followed the Trump administration's invocation of the wartime statute in March to target Tren de Aragua members, claiming gang ties justified emergency deportations despite peacetime conditions.
- The administration sent individuals identified as members of the Tren de Aragua group to a well-known prison in El Salvador and maintained that U.S. courts lacked authority to intervene in their release, a position the court criticized for circumventing due process.
- Lee Gelernt of the ACLU, who represented the case, stated that the court appropriately blocked the Trump administration’s attempt to apply a wartime law in a period without war to control immigration, underscoring the significance of the ruling.
- The ruling reined in the administration's view that it could declare emergencies without court oversight and is likely to face appeals at the full 5th Circuit or the U.S. Supreme Court for a final decision.
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Appeals court blocks Trump's use of Alien Enemies Act for Venezuelan gang members
A federal appeals court ruled late on Tuesday that the Trump administration cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan gang members, blocking a central part of the president’s strategy to combat Tren de Aragua. President Donald Trump has relied on the 18th-century wartime law to deport alleged members of the gang. The ruling came as a surprise to many, given that the three-judge 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is one of the most con…
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President Donald Trump’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to quickly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members was unlawful, a federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday. The court also shot down Trump’s claim that there was a “predatory incursion” by members…
A federal appeals court ruled on Tuesday that President Donald Trump illegally invoked the Foreign Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans, who he accuses of being part of the terrorist group Aragua Train (TDA). In a 2-1 decision, the Fifth U.S. Court of Appeals determined that Trump cannot continue using this law to carry out deportations in the states of Mississippi, Louisiana and Texas.]]>
A US Federal Court of Appeal ruled against the use by President Donald Trump of a law on "foreign enemies" to expel alleged members of a Venezuelan gang.
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