US Supreme Court temporarily blocks deportation of detained Venezuelans under Alien Enemies Act | World News
The US Supreme Court has temporarily blocked President Donald Trump’s adminration from deporting a group of alleged Venezuelan migrants, who are accused to be gang members under the rarely used Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
In a brief order, the Supreme Court paused the Trump adminration to not remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center “until further order of this court.” Though Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented from the judgement.
The court made the decision after the men made an emergency appeal via American Civil Liberties Union, stating that they faced imminent deportation under the wartime law without the judicial review the justices previously ordered.
President Trump promised the American people he would use all lawful measures to remove the threat of terror illegal aliens, like members of TdA, from our homeland.
We are confident we will ultimately prevail against the onslaught of meritless litigation brought radical… https://t.co/88PvYM0Yz3
— Karoline Leavitt (@PressSec) April 19, 2025
President Trump has sent alleged Venezuelan gang members to a prison in El Salvador, invoking the rarely used Alien Enemies Act of 1798, which provided the president the power to detain and deport natives or citizens of “enemy” nations without usual processes.
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This act has been used thrice in the hory of the United States, all during the war, reported BBC. The White House has rejected the questions raised and stated that challenges to use the wartime law are “meritless litigation”.
Protestors chant during a demonstration against President Donald Trump’s use of El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center, or CECOT, prison for people deported from the U.S. for entering the country illegally, outside the Embassy of El Salvador in Washington. (AP Photo/Nathan Howard)
In a post on X, White House Press Secretary Karoline Leavitt said “We are confident in the lawfulness of the adminration’s actions and in ultimately prevailing against an onslaught of meritless litigation brought radical activs who care more about the rights of terror aliens than those of the American people.”
Meanwhile, a lawyer of ACLU, Lee Gelernt in an email to Associated Press said “We are deeply relieved that the Court has temporarily blocked the removals. These individuals were in imminent danger of spending the rest of their lives in a brutal Salvadoran prison without ever having had any due process.”
The Trump adminration has already deported more than 300 alleged Venezuelan and Salvadoran gang members to a maximum-security prison in El Salvador.
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