Tag Archives: Alien Enemies Act

In a late-night order released at 1 a.m. Saturday, the Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from carrying out a second wave of deportations targeting Venezuelan immigrants under the Alien Enemies Act, a wartime statute last widely used during World War II. The court’s emergency action came amid frenzied legal …

Federal judges in Texas and New York Wednesday temporarily halted the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 in parts of those two states where Venezuelans set for deportation are incarcerated. The American Civil Liberties Union filed cases in the Southern District of New York and the …

In a pivotal 5-4 decision Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court lifted a lower court’s block on the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act, effectively clearing the path for the expedited deportation of Venezuelan nationals alleged to be members of the criminal group Tren de Aragua. The ruling allows …

A federal judge issued a temporary emergency order Friday halting a key part of the Trump administration’s aggressive mass deportation campaign, ruling that individuals facing removal must be given a “meaningful opportunity” to seek humanitarian protection before being deported to a country that is not their own. The order, from …

The Trump administration announced Sunday that nearly 300 immigrants alleged to be members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua were deported to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, despite a federal judge’s ruling temporarily blocking the deportations. White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt defended the move, …