The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday kept in place its block on President Donald Trump¡¯s deportations of Venezuelan migrants under a 1798 law historically used only in wartime, faulting his administration for seeking to remove them without adequate legal process.
The justices, in a brief and unsigned opinion, granted a request by American Civil Liberties Union attorneys representing the migrants to maintain the halt on the removals for now. The court on April 19 had ordered a temporary stop to the administration¡¯s deportations of dozens of migrants being held at a detention center in Texas.
Trump¡¯s deportations are part of the Republican president¡¯s immigration crackdown since he returned to office in January.
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