The United States Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to suspend the expulsion of a group of Members of alleged Venezuelan gangs.
A group of civil liberties had continued to stop the dismissal of men, currently in detention in Texas, claiming that they had not been able to challenge their affairs in court.
Donald Trump sent members of Venezuelan gangs accused to a notorious prison in Salvador, invoking the law on extraterrestrial enemies of 1798, which gives the president the power to hold and expel the natives or the citizens of the “enemy” without usual processes. The act was previously used only three times, all during the war.
The White House called the challenges to the use of the law for mass deportations “dispute without merit”.
“We are confident in the legality of the actions of the administration and, in the end, the assault of an unlikely dispute brought by radical activists who care more about the rights of terrorist foreigners than those of the American people,” wrote the press secretary of the White House, Karoline Leavitt, in an article on X.
The Act respecting extraterrestrial enemies was invoked for the last time during the Second World War, when residents of Japanese origin were imprisoned without trials and thousands of people sent to internment camps.
Since its entry into office in January, Trump’s hard immigration policies have encountered a number of legal obstacles.
Trump had accused the Venezuelan gang Tren of Aragua of “perpetrating, trying and threatening an invasion or a predatory foray” on American territory.
Out of 261 Venezuelans deported to Salvador, on April 8, 137, were withdrawn under the Act respecting extraterrestrial enemies, a senior administration, the American information partner of the BBC, told CBS.
A lower court temporarily blocked these deportations on March 15.
The Supreme Court initially ruled on April 8 that Trump could use the law on extraterrestrial enemies to expel members of alleged gangs, but the deportees must have the opportunity to challenge their withdrawal.
The trial which led to Saturday’s order said that the Venezuelans detained in northern Texas had been notified of their imminent deportation in English, despite an inmate speaking only Spanish.
The challenge of the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) also declared that the men had not been informed that they had the right to challenge the decision before the court.
“Without the intervention of this court, tens or hundreds of members of the proposed course can be withdrawn from a possible sentence to life in Salvador without any opportunity to challenge their designation or withdrawal,” said the trial.
The judges of the Supreme Court Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissident on Saturday.
In his second inaugural speech in January, Trump undertook to “eliminate the presence of all foreign gangs and criminal networks bringing a devastating American ground crime”.
In the deepest case, the government admitted that it was mistakenly expelled the National of Salvador Kilmar Ábrego García, but argues that he is a member of the Gang MS-13, that his lawyer and his family denies. Mr. ábrego García has never been found guilty of a crime.
The Supreme Court ruled unanimously that The government should make it easier to bring it Mr. Ábrego GarcíaBut the Trump administration said it would live “again” again in the United States.
Senator Chris Van Hollen, a Maryland democrat, Visited M. Ábrego García in Salvador And said he had been transferred from the mega-jail Cecot (Terrorism Center confinement) in a new prison.
