The Supreme Court docket briefly halted the Trump administration’s efforts to make use of the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport members of a violent jail gang early Saturday morning.
The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had been turned again by two judges previous to the Supreme Court docket’s emergency injunction, with affiliate justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissenting from the ruling, Fox Information reported. The ACLU had additionally gone earlier than United States District Decide James Boasberg of the District of Columbia, who held a Friday night listening to on the matter. (RELATED: Alan Dershowitz Predicts Decide’s Risk To Appoint Prosecutor Over Deportation Flights ‘Received’t Stand’)
On this handout photograph supplied by the Salvadoran authorities, members of the Nationwide police escort an inmate allegedly linked to felony organizations at CECOT on March 16, 2025 in Tecoluca, El Salvador. Trump’s administration deported 238 alleged members of the Venezuelan felony organizations ‘Tren De Aragua’ and Mara Salvatrucha with solely 23 being members of the Mara. Nayib Bukele president of El Salvador introduced that his authorities will obtain the alleged members of the gang to be taken to CECOT. On February of 2023 El Salvador inaugurated Latin America’s largest jail as a part of President Nayib Bukele’s plan to struggle gangs. (Picture by Salvadoran Authorities by way of Getty Photos)
President Donald Trump issued a number of govt orders to deal with unlawful immigration and border safety upon taking workplace Jan. 20, together with designating Mexican drug cartels, the Venezuelan jail gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) and the El Salvadoran jail gang MS-13 as overseas terrorist organizations. Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to hurry up the deportation of TdA gang members on March 15.
Boasberg issued a March 15 injunction ordering the Trump administration to show two planes carrying members of TdA to El Salvador round. Boasberg has since threatened to carry the Trump administration in contempt of court docket for not turning the planes round.
The Supreme Court docket overturned Boasberg’s orders in a 5-4 choice issued April 7, saying Boasberg lacked the authority to difficulty the injunction, however one of many new challenges got here from Texas, the place the gang members are being detained pending their deportation. The court docket additionally dominated Trump had the ability to make use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport gang members.
The Border Patrol encountered hundreds of thousands of unlawful immigrants throughout the Biden administration, in response to figures launched by U.S. Customs and Border Safety. Secretary of Homeland Safety Kristi Noem introduced Feb. 25 that solely 200 unlawful immigrants had been apprehended on the U.S.-Mexico border, the bottom single-day complete in 15 years.
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