US EditionJudge won’t lift block on Trump use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans
- In 2025, a federal judge based in South Texas issued a permanent injunction preventing the deportation of Venezuelan immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act.
- The injunction followed Trump’s assertion that a Venezuelan gang was invading the U.S. and justified invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act, but the judge rejected these claims.
- Several courts criticized the removals to El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, citing lack of due process, indefinite detention, inability to contact counsel, and unclear criminal records.
- The ruling emphasized the administration’s failure to prove an invasion and stated presidents cannot use wartime powers in peacetime for removals without judicial review or hearings.
- The injunction prevents further expulsions under this act, highlighting legal limits on executive authority and concerns about mistreatment of immigrants in foreign facilities.
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N.Y. judge finds Alien Enemies Act use illegal, blocks removals to ‘evil’ jail
NEW YORK - A federal judge on Tuesday barred the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan immigrants without a hearing, saying the White House has failed to prove the existence of an “invasion” or another conflict that would justify invoking the centuries-old law.
Lawyers Seek Return of Migrants Deported Under Wartime Act
Over the past two weeks, immigration lawyers, scrambling from courthouse to courthouse, have secured provisional orders in five different states stopping the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, to deport Venezuelans accused of being gang members to a terrorism prison in El Salvador. Judges have been harsh in appraising how the White House has used the powerful statute. “Cows have better treatment n…
Hartford Courant
Federal court rulings have slowed down Trump deportation plans. What you need to know
By Antonio Maria Delgado, Miami Herald A flurry of recent federal court rulings have stalled, for the moment, the Trump administration’s efforts to deport as many as one million undocumented migrants this year, as judges increasingly determine that individuals cannot be removed from the country without due process. Some of the most significant decisions have centered on the administration’s move to suspend benefits provided under Temporary Prote…
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