The Supreme Court on Saturday paused the persecution of Venezuelans held in north Texas for the time being. The jury directed the republican leadership not to replace the Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center until further purchase. It was a 7-2 conviction with Justice Thomas and Justice Samuel Alito dissident. The ruling came in an incident charm from the American Civil Liberties Union which contended that immigration officials appeared to be moving to resume removal under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.
“We are greatly relieved that the Court has temporarily blocked the removal. These people were in immediate danger of spending the rest of their lives in a terrible Peruvian jail without actually having had any owing process, ” ACLU attorney Lee Gelernt said in an email.
President Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act in March to get authorities to quickly apprehend and replace Venezuelan refugees with alleged relationships to Tren de Aragua. The Act has only been invoked three preceding days in US history, most lately during World War II to keep Japanese-American civilians in detention camps. The Trump administration contended the Act gave it the power to quickly reduce immigrants it identified as members of the gang, irrespective of their immigration status.
Reacting to the verdict, right-wing author Ann Coulter wrote:” Luckily, the Supreme Court wasn’t elected president. Keep deporting the infiltrators, POTUS. “
Will the Trump administration defy court order again?
The White House did not issue any statement reacting to the court order though it will not be anything new if they defy the order as the Trump administration already ignored the court order involving Maryland man Kilmar Abrego Garcia. The court ordered the administration to bring back the mistakenly deported man. But the Trump administration made it clear that he would not be brought back. The issue has snowballed into a major political row and Marylan Dem senator went to El Salvador to meet the man, imprisoned in Salvador’s most notorious detention center and even Donald Trump issued a statement mocking him.
