SCOTUS Presses Pause On Trump’s Tren De Aragua Deportations

The Supreme Court temporarily halted the Trump administration’s efforts to use the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport members of a violent prison gang early Saturday morning.

The American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU) had been turned back by two judges prior to the Supreme Court’s emergency injunction, with associate justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissenting from the ruling, Fox News reported. The ACLU had also gone before United States District Judge James Boasberg of the District of Columbia, who held a Friday evening hearing on the matter.

President Donald Trump issued several executive orders to address illegal immigration and border security upon taking office Jan. 20, including designating Mexican drug cartels, the Venezuelan prison gang Tren de Aragua (TdA) and the El Salvadoran prison gang MS-13 as foreign terrorist organizations. Trump invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speed up the deportation of TdA gang members on March 15.

Boasberg issued a March 15 injunction ordering