Judge won’t lift block on Trump use of Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans
- Judge James Boasberg rejected the Trump administration's request to lift a ban on deporting Venezuelan immigrants.
- The Trump administration invoked the 1798 Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged gang members without court access.
- The administration deported hundreds of immigrants to El Salvador despite the judge's initial temporary ban.
- Chief Justice Roberts stated "impeachment is not an appropriate response" to judicial disagreements.
- This case tests executive power assertions against the US constitutional system of checks and balances.
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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…

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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