The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court late Monday to lift its freeze on deportations of nearly 200 Venezuelan migrants, citing a dangerous escalation at a Texas detention center involving alleged members of a violent gang.
In an emergency filing, the Justice Department’s Solicitor General D. John Sauer urged the high court to allow the government to resume deportations under the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime statute the administration is using to expedite removals of foreign nationals accused of threatening national security.
The Bluebonnet Detention Center on Thursday, April 24, 2025, in Anson, Texas (AP Photo/Eli Hartman)
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Sauer, the third highest-ranking member of the Trump Justice Department, said the detained migrants, allegedly affiliated with the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua, designated by U.S. officials as
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