A federal appeals court declined Wednesday to lift an order barring the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law.
A federal appeals court declined Wednesday to lift an order barring the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law. A split three-judge panel of the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit wouldn’t block a March 15 order temporarily prohibiting deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, the AP reports. Invoking the law for the first time since World War II, President Trump’s administration deported hundreds of people under a presidential proclamation calling the Tren de Aragua gang an invading force.
