Tag Archives: Alien Enemies Act

In a stinging rebuke of the Trump administration’s immigration tactics, a federal judge on Wednesday ordered the U.S. government to allow hundreds of migrants deported under the Alien Enemies Act to challenge their detentions and removals in court, ruling that their constitutional right to due process was denied. The migrants …

A federal judge in Pennsylvania ruled Tuesday that former President Donald Trump can use the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) — a rarely invoked 18th-century wartime law — to deport undocumented Venezuelan citizens who are proven members of the Tren de Aragua gang, which the administration labeled a foreign terrorist organization. …

A federal judge raised serious questions Wednesday about the Trump administration’s claim that it is not responsible for the men it deported to El Salvador, citing President Donald Trump’s own public statements suggesting otherwise. Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg sharply questioned the government’s assertion that the 238 deported men …

Two federal judges Tuesday blocked the Trump administration from using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelans, limiting the rulings to Colorado and a New York district. U.S. District Judge for the Southern District of New York Alvin K. Hellerstein found that President Donald Trump’s invocation of the …

In a major rebuke to the Trump administration’s hardline immigration tactics, a federal judge appointed by President Donald Trump ruled Thursday that the administration cannot use the centuries-old Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelans allegedly linked to the criminal group Tren de Aragua. U.S. District Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., presiding …

A federal judge in Denver on Tuesday granted a motion for a temporary restraining order blocking the removal of detainees held in Colorado under the 1798 law that President Donald Trump’s administration has invoked to send hundreds of people to a brutal maximum-security prison in El Salvador. U.S. District Court …

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, …