The ACLU believes the Trump administration is deporting dozens of Venezuelans on a bus to a Texas airport, so it asked several courts to temporarily stop dozens of detainees accused of being accused of being accused of being a member of a foreign gang under wartime law.
By Friday night, at least one judge, U.S. District Court Judge James E., a request to the U.S. Supreme Court and the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit in New Orleans is under trial.
Drew C. Ender, a lawyer for the U.S. Department of Justice.
After Venezuelan detainees, including California, were detained, the ACLU asked the court to file an emergency order and was transferred to Blue Belt Detention Center in Anson, Texas, and according to their documents, they will delete it as soon as possible Friday night.
The Trump administration brought hundreds of Venezuelan immigrants to El Salvador last month, deemed members of Tren de Aragua, where they were detained in a notorious super-prison called a terrorist detention center. Many families were sent to El Salvador and had said on earlier planes that they were not members of the gang.
Deportation began a high-stakes legal battle that tested President Trump’s deportation plan and the limits of his power.
The U.S. Supreme Court ruled earlier this month that the Wartime Administration was cited by the government Can be restoredbut the immigrants must be given appropriate notice and the opportunity to file a case in the place of detention.
Boasberg had heard earlier cases of government citing the Foreign Enemy Act, and he ordered a temporary suspension of dismissal. But despite the orders, the deported plane was sent to El Salvador, where 200 people remained in prison.
The Trump administration said that once individuals are out of U.S. jurisdiction, they are almost unable to bring them back to the U.S.
“If these people are moved to a foreign prison, perhaps because of the rest of their lives without any due process, it would be a clear violation of the Supreme Court’s opinion,” Lee Gelerent, the ACLU attorney who led the case, said in an interview Friday.
The case began in a Texas federal court earlier this week when the American Civil Liberties Union asked Judge Wesley Hendrix to temporarily stop any removal on behalf of the two because they had no chance to challenge their case.
Hendrix rejected the request. By Friday, lawyers, after reporting about their impending removal, learned that more and more people were being held and questioned again. When the attorneys received no response that afternoon, they sought help from the U.S. Court of Appeal and asked the Supreme Court to step in.
ACLU lawyers argued that the move was necessary because Bluebonnet officials told detainees that they would be deported and asked them to sign an English deletion notice based on their affiliation with Tren de Aragua.
According to a manifesto filed by ACLU lawyer Michelle Brané, a man from the agency sent his wife a tiktok video depicting various detainees, an executive director of a nonprofit organization serving asylum seekers. In it, a young man said that they were all labeled as members of Tren de Aragua. He said in the video that they were not allowed to call their families and that the detainees had no idea where they would be moved.
“They said we must be removed quickly because we are a terrorist threat to the country,” he said.
Another detainee said they were signed by a paper but were told they would be evacuated from the country regardless of whether they signed it or not.
The third detainee said: “We are not members of Tren de Aragua. We are normal civilians.” The fourth said: “I have no deportation orders. I have all the paperwork. I have my American children. I have been brought here illegally. I have not been arrested, there is no warrant and they want me to be deported.”
