US Supreme Court halts deportation of detained Venezuelans
The US Supreme Court has ordered the Trump administration to pause the deportation of a group of alleged Venezuelan gang members.
The men are being held in detention in north Texas under an 18th-Century wartime law, and a civil liberties group has sued the government saying they have not had a chance to contest their case in court.
Donald Trump has sent accused Venezuelan gang members to a notorious mega-jail in El Salvador, invoking the 1798 Alien Enemies Act which gives the president power to order the detention and deportation of natives or citizens of “enemy” nations without usual processes.
The act had previously been used only three times, all during war.
Source: BBC | Language: English