The United States Supreme Court maintained the blockade of Venezuelan migrants by President Donald Trump under a 1798 law for times of war, after lawyers argued that the government was ready to expel men without judicial review in violation of a prior order of the judges.
The judges, after ordering on April 19 the temporary suspension of the expulsions of dozens of immigrants held in a Texas detention center, agreed to the request of the lawyers of the American Union of Civil Liberties that represent immigrants to maintain for now the suspension of expulsions.
The Supreme Court also clarified that the Administration was free to continue deportations under other provisions of the United States Immigration Law.
The deportations of Trump have been part of the Migration Offensive of the Republican President since he returned to power in January.
Trump criticized the decision on his social networks: “The Supreme Court will not allow us to throw our country’s criminals!”
Conservative judges Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas publicly dissected Friday’s decision.
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Alito wrote in an opinion that he did not believe that the court had the power to intervene in this phase of the case and questioned the legality of providing help to detainees as a group.
It is the second time that Trump measures related to Venezuelan migrants arrive at the Supreme Court, in a legal dispute that has raised doubts about the government’s will to comply with the limits established by the highest judicial body of the country.
ACLU’s lawyers had asked the Supreme Court to intervene after denouncing that immigrants held at the Bluebonnet detention center ran an imminent risk of expulsion.
The lawyers said that administration officials had not provided immigrants with the required notification or the opportunity to challenge transfers to a prison in El Salvador before many of them were embarked on buses bound for the airport.
On April 7, the Supreme Court set limits to expulsions under the Law of Foreign Enemies, even when the legality of its application is questioned for this purpose. The judges demanded that the detainees receive a notification “within a reasonable period and in such a way” to challenge the legality of their expulsion.
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The government accuses migrants of being members of the Aragua Train, a criminal gang from Venezuelan prisons that the State Department has designated as a foreign terrorist organization. Trump has invoked the law of foreign enemies of 1798 in an attempt to deport them quickly.
The relatives of many of the hundreds of deported Venezuelans and their lawyers have denied that they are members of the Aragua train and have said that they were never given the opportunity to challenge the accusations of the administration about their affiliation to the band.
With Reuters information
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