Washington – Trump administration An emergency appeal has been filed Efforts to resume the rapid deportation of Venezuelans accused of gang ties under wartime laws blocked by lower courts in the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday.
US representative general Sarah Harris argued that the federal judge’s temporary restraining order and the Court of Appeals briefly claimed to the Supreme Court this month. Dominate to support it on WednesdayPresident Donald Trump falsely denied his authority to make decisions on national security operations, including the removal of Venezuelan citizens who say they are subject to the Alien Enemy Act of 1798.
“The district court order rejected the president’s decision on how to protect the state from foreign terrorist organizations, putting the debilitating impacts of sensitive foreign negotiations at risk,” Harris wrote at a request to the court.
The alien enemy law was only called three times during the war of 1812, World War I, and World War II.
The Trump administration tried to use it in a novel way when the state wasn’t officially at war. The administration has designated Tren de Aragua, a Venezuelan-born gangster, as a foreign terrorist group, claiming that Venezuelan citizens over the age of 14 are suspected of having ties with the gang.
US District Judge James E. Boasberg issued a temporary restraint order this month on the Trump administration’s use of the law, and the District of Columbia Circuit Court of Appeals upheld the order this week. The administration called on the Supreme Court to lift the order.
“As long as the order is in force, the United States cannot rely on the declaration to eliminate dangerous affiliates with foreign terrorist organizations, even if the United States receives signs that certain (Tren de Aragua) members are trying to destabilize or take undercover measures,” Harris said Friday.
Extends the suppression order
Boasberg’s temporary restraining orders placed on the use of alien enemy laws are set to expire on Saturday. The American Civil Liberties Union, which filed the lawsuit, requested an extension of the order for two more weeks.
The ACLU will also request the issuance of a preliminary injunction to block the administration from deportation under the law until the lawsuit is completed. The hearing is set for April 8th.
Boasberg rejected the Trump administration’s move to lift his restraining orders on the ground that those subject to alien enemy law should have a legitimate process to challenge those accusations.
This week’s DC Circuit, the Trump administration’s lawyer attorney general Those subjects argued There is no need to notify the declaration. They are removed under the alien enemy law. The Trump administration also argued that those who fall under the alien enemy law could pose a challenge to their detention under the habeas groups’ claims.
Contrary to oral order
The White House quietly enacted the law on March 15th, and the oral restraining order given by Boasburg that day came into effect several hours later.
In that order, Boasberg banned the Trump administration from applying the law, but after the order was issued, three deportation planes landed in El Salvador. The Trump administration argued that order in his words was uncoercive.
Boasberg also ordered anyone exposed to alien enemy law to be returned to the United States, but federal immigration agents took over 250 men who had put three flights in the infamous prison in El Salvador.
Boasberg has I vowed to make a decision Attorney General Pam Bondy violated his restraining orders when the Trump administration sent deportation planes to El Salvador Invoked “Privilege of State Secret”“Refusing to answer detailed questions about the flight.
Friday’s emergency request was one of the immigration-related appeals made by the Trump administration to the High Court. Requests etc. Lifting up several national injunctions placed on the president’s executive order that ends the constitutional rights of birthright citizenship.
Last updated at 1:31pm, March 28, 2025
