“The justices did not address the question of whether the #Trump administration improperly categorized the Venezuelans as deportable under the #AlienEnemiesAct.”

Oddly US Intel agencies say these people aren't suspects and the VZ government hired gang thing is nonsense too @unusual_whales.

"The #USSC sides with the #Trump Administration, allowing them to continue to remove suspected members of Tren de Aragua from the country under the #AlienEnemiesAct of 1798" #Deportation

#SCOTUS’ decision was 5-4, with #AmyConeyBarrett joining the 3 Democrat appointees in dissent *vacates* Chief Judge #Boasberg’s temporary restraining order #TRO in the #AlienEnemyAct cases. Judicial review must be available, Court holds, but has to come through #habeas petitions.

In the #Trump admin’s #SCOTUS application, it refers to Abrego Garcia as an “enemy alien.”

The government has claimed that Garcia was removed under the #Immigration & Nationality Act, NOT the #AlienEnemiesAct.

The Trump admin has also claimed he’s a member of M13 which is NOT covered by the #AEA, only Tren de Aragua.

https://www.documentcloud.org/documents/25881144-24a949/

The admin appealed Judge Xinis’s order to the US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit, which on Mon declined to intervene immediately & stay the lower court ruling.

So the #Trump admin asked #SCOTUS to intervene on an emergency basis [I think we’re in double digits now for Trump’s SCOTUS emergency applications].

#law #immigration #AlienEnemiesAct #ExtraordinaryRendition #StateSponsoredAbduction #Constitution #CivilRights #HumanRights #DueProcess #Judiciary #SeparationOfPowers #AbuseOfPower

Abrego García has been detained at #CECOT, a mega-prison in #ElSalvador, since #ICE deported him last month, despite a court order forbidding it because he had fled death threats from gang members in his home country.

#Trump officials have argued that they have no power to return Abrego García because he is now in the custody of El Salvador. [even though the US is paying El Salvador to incarcerate him & others there]

"From the moment he was seized, it was #unconstitutional," Judge Xinis said during the hearing. "If there isn't a document, a warrant, a statement of probable cause, then there is no basis to have seized him in the first place. That's how I'm looking at it," the judge said.

Abrego Garcia was arrested & deported last month — despite having been granted protection by an #immigration judge in 2019 that should have prevented him from being deported to #ElSalvador.

Judge Xinis ordered the #Trump admin to return Abrego Garcia to the US by 11:59PM ET on Mon, April 7. She said keeping him in El Salvador constitutes irreparable harm.

The justices will soon decide whether to relieve the #Trump admin from the trial court’s order halting the expulsions. Whether the govt has complied w/the order isn’t directly before #SCOTUS. But whether the Court can trust the govt’s representations during such quickly unfolding litigation is—& the justices have every reason not to.

The #Trump admin had asked #SCOTUS to intervene & lift a block on the #deportations imposed by a lower court. But a brief filed on behalf of the #immigrants by the #ACLU & #DemocracyForward said that block is now “the only thing” preventing the Trump admin from sending immigrants “to a prison in #ElSalvador, perhaps never to be seen again, without any kind of procedural protection, much less judicial review.”

https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/24/24A931/354494/20250401111703480_2025.04.01%20AEA%20Stay%20Opp%20FINAL%20Opp.%20only%20pdfA.pdf

#MaksymChernyak, 1 of 3 people to die at the facility since last Oct, was brought to Krome on Feb 2 & taken to a hospital just 2 wks later, after he began vomiting & having seizures, acc/to #ICE. The #Miami-Dade County ME said he died of "Complications of Hypertensive Intracerebral Hemorrhage" (AKA a stroke).