Trump takes case on Venezuelan deportations to El Salvador to the Supreme Court
The U.S. administration is demanding the lifting of the ban on using an 18th-century law of war to expel irregular migrants without judicial oversight
U.S. President Donald Trump has taken a decisive step in the case involving the use of an 18th-century wartime law to deport immigrants without judicial oversight. His administration has escalated the matter directly to the Supreme Court, bypassing the lower courts. A judge had previously imposed a preliminary injunction against the application of this law, the Alien Enemies Act, when the government expelled more than 200 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, accusing them of being members of the Tren de Aragua criminal gang.
