Federal Judge Casts Doubt on Trump Arguments in Venezuelan Migrants Case
The judge pressed a lawyer for the Justice Department on the government’s role and responsibilities in the men’s deportation and incarceration in El Salvador.
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The judge pressed a lawyer for the Justice Department on the government’s role and responsibilities in the men’s deportation and incarceration in El Salvador.
New details deepen questions about the deportations, showing that El Salvador’s president pressed for assurances that the migrants were really members of the Tren de Aragua gang.
An updated lawsuit filed in Washington was the latest in a flurry of suits challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act to send migrants to a prison in El Salvador.
The president’s efforts to invoke a wartime statute to deport scores of Venezuelan immigrants have set off one of the most contentious legal battles of his second term.
The filing was in response to a Supreme Court decision that let the migrants challenge efforts to deport them under a wartime law, but only in the place where they were being held.
Marcy Rheintgen said she was held in jail overnight after she deliberately challenged a state law by entering a women’s bathroom in the government building.
An attorney general in one of those states said the Trump administration was upending “the promise of progress for future generations.”
Lawyers for Venezuelan migrants asked the justices to keep in place a pause on President Trump’s deportation plan, calling it “completely at odds” with limited wartime authority given by Congress.
Incidents of travelers being denied entry into the United States in recent weeks have sparked concern over what to expect at airports and other border crossings.
The order declared that unauthorized Venezuelan immigrants who are at least 14 years old and part of the Tren de Aragua gang can be “apprehended, restrained, secured and removed.”