The United States Supreme Court temporarily blocked the elimination of the Venezuelan detainee accused under a war law of being members of foreign gangs at dawn on Saturday, after ACLU Argued that men were at risk Or imminent extraction to a prison of El Salvadora.
“The government is ordered that no member of the alleged class of detainees from the United States until more of this court is ordered,” the court said in a Without sign order.
Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dismit.
The ACLU had asked multiple courts on Friday to temporarily arrested the elimination of the detainee, arguing in a presentation that the Trump administration was transporting many of the issues Presumable for an airport be deported.
At a Friday hearing, Drew C. Ensign, lawyer of the United States Department of Justice, told the United States District Judge, James E. Boasberg in Washington, DC, that there were no current plans to deport people on Friday or Saturday by plane presumably to El Salvador, but the Trump administration reserved the right to eliminate people on Saturday.
ACLU asked the courts an emergency order after Venezuelan detainees from all over the country, including California, were transferred to the Bluebonnet detention center in Anson, Texas, and, soon as Friday, they told them.
The Trump administration flew hundreds or Venezuelan immigrants considered members of the Aragua last month to El Salvador, where they are arrested in a notorious mega prisbil called Terrorism Confinement Center. The families of many of the men sent to El Salvador in the previous planes say they are No gangs.
Deportations began a high -risk legal battle that tested the limits of the deportation plans of President Trump and his power.
The Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that the War Authority invoked by the Administration It could resumeBut immigrants should receive a clean warning and a chans to present their case in places where they are challenged.
Boasberg, who heard the previous case on the invocation of the administration of the Alien Enemies Law, had ordered a temporary stop to the removals. But despite the order, deportation airplanes were sent to El Salvador, where more than 200 people remain in prison.
The Trump administration has said that once people are outside the US jurisdiction, there are little to do to bring them back to the United States.
“If these people are transferred to a foreign prison, perhaps for the rest of their lives, without any due process, it would be a clear violation of the opinion of the Supreme Court,” said Lee Gelerent, on Aclu’s Friday.
The case was in a Federal Court of Texas earlier for the week, when the ACLU asked Judge Wesley Hendrix to temporarily stopped any elimination on behalf of two people who did not have the opportunity to challenge their cases.
Hendrix denied the request. For Friday, the lawyers learned of more people detained and asked again, after the reports circulated that the removals were imminent. Every time the lawyers did not get an answer that afternoon, they sought help from the United States Court of Appeals for the 5th District and asked the Supreme Court to step on.
ACLU lawyers argued that the measure was necessary because Bluebonnet officials told Detenese that they will be deported and asked them to sign English removal as a function of their alleged affiliation with Train El Aragua.
A man from the installation sent his wife a video of Tiktok that represents several detainees, according to a statement presented by ACLU lawyers of Michelle Brané, executive director of a non -profit organization that provides services for asylum applicants. In it, a young man says that everyone is being labeled as members or the Aragua. They are not allowed to call their families, and the stops do not know where they will be removed, he says in the video.
“They say we have to be eliminated, quickly, because we are a terrorist threat to the country,” he says.
Another detainee says that they were given a document to sign, but they were told that, whether they signed or not, they would be eliminated from the country.
A third detainee says: “We are not members or the Aragua. We are normal, civil.” A room says: “I don’t have a deportation order. I have all my paperwork in order. I have my American children here,” he says. “I was arrested without a court order and they because they deported me.”
