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A federal judge temporarily stopped the Trump administration’s ability to use an authority of the war to quickly deport some immigrants, which the United States has accused of being associated with Venezuela’s gang train de Aragua.
The judge ordered any aircraft in the air to take some of these refugees to return to the United States.
Initially, on Saturday, the Trump administration requested the Ellen Enemy Act of 1798, which gives the president a tremendous authority to target and remove non -documentary immigrants to accelerate the deportation of immigrants. The law has been prepared that if the United States is in a war with another country, or a foreign nation has invaded the United States or threatened to do so.
US District Judge James James Boseberg prevented the administration from deporting five people who challenged the use of President Donald Trump’s Act. After the hasty hearing, Boseberg expanded its temporary block on the administration, requesting the plaintiff’s lawyers to confirm a temporary class, which covers all non -Citizens in the US custody that will be subject to Trump’s announcement.
Boseberg, who served as the Chief Judge of the Federal Trial Level Court in Washington, DC, agreed that the deportation of these individuals should also be temporarily blocked while the legal challenge proceeded.
Boseberg added, “especially the information of the plaintiffs, which is unusual by the government, that flights are actively departing and intends to leave, I am not sure I am able to wait more.” “Any aircraft that consists of people who are about to end or in the air need to return to the United States.”
The judge said that the temporary prevention order would be implemented for 14 days “or until more court order.” He heard another hearing later this month.
“I think there is clearly irreparable damage here that these people will be deported,” said Boseberg. “A short delay in their elimination does not hurt the government.”
The Justice Department has appealed to Boseberg decisions in the DC Circuit Court of Appeal.
In the presidential announcement earlier Saturday, the White House cited Train D. Aragua as a foreign terrorist organization, saying that many of them had “illegally infiltrated the United States and they were conducting unorganized war against the United States.”
The announcement calls for immediate arrest, detained and removal of all the men.
Three times in American history – the Act of Stranger Enemies – during the war – according to, Brennan Center. During World War I and II, it was used to justify German, Austria, Hungary, Italian and Japanese immigrants to be deported. According to the Neutral Law and Policy Institute, this law played its role in the notorious US policy of the Japanese Internet during World War II.
Following the preliminary decision of the Federal Judge Saturday, the American Civil Liberties Union and the judge came from the Democracy a few hours before the request from the judge – groups argued that there could not be enough time to intervene after Trump’s release.
ACLU argued in its filing that the group did not engage in the attack “because criminal activity does not meet the long -standing definition of these legal requirements.”
This story has been updated with additional details.
CNN’s Dewan Cole and Shania Shelton participated in the report.
