Center for Terrorism Isolation (CECOT) in Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador, on April 04, 2025. Credit Line: AA / Abaca / Abaca Press / Profimedia
The US Supreme Court temporarily forbade the Trump administration on Saturday morning to deport the Venezuelans in custody of immigration services, After their lawyers stated that they are exposed to an imminent risk of expulsion without a revision of the judicial decision previously imposed by judges, reports Reuters.
“The Government is directed not to expel any member of the class assumed by the prisoners from the United States to a new order of this court,” the Supreme Court judges said in a short, unmoved decision.
Lawyers of the American Union for Civil Liberties (ACLU) filed urgent requests in several courts on Friday, including the Supreme Court, requesting immediate measures after reporting that some of the men had already been on buses and were told to be deported.
ACLU said that rapid developments mean that the administration is ready to deport men using a law of 1798 which, historically, was used only during the war, without giving them a realistic opportunity to challenge their expulsion – as the Supreme Court asked.
Trump invoked the law of 1798 on foreign enemies in an attempt to quickly expel the alleged members of Aragua train, a criminal tape from Venezuelan prisons that the administration catalogs as a terrorist group.
Of the 261 Venezuelans deported from April 8 in a notorious mega-prison, 137 have been expelled under the Law on foreign enemies, a high official of the Trump Administration said.
A lower court temporarily blocked these deportations on March 15.
