The federal judge blocked President Donald Trump to use a 227-year-old law that was supposed to protect the US during the war time to spend the mass deportations of Venezuelanians.
On Saturday, Trump proclaimed an immigrants belonging to the Venecuela criminal gang, a moment of de Aragua, “led an irregular war” against the United States that they would deport them under the 1798 almighty enemies.
But US District Judge James Boasberg on Saturday night ordered the deportation of deportations covered by a proclamation that will last 14 days, according to media reports.
Judge Boasberg said at hearing that he had heard planes with deportation and ordered them to turn back, the Washington Post reported.
The law allows the US during the war time to attract and remove people who threaten the safety of the country without the need to follow the proceedings. He was last called to experience people of Japanese origin during World War II.
There was a little surprise on Saturday, where Trump stated that the DE Aragua “committed, tried and threatened an invasion or a predatory inflammation on the territory of the United States.”
He promised to use controversial law for mass deportations during last year’s campaign.
The American Union of Civic Freedom and the Second Rights Group has already sued him to block him to use it on Saturday before issuing proclamation.
At the hearing, the judge said that the conditions of “invasion” and “predatory invades” in the law “really relate to enemy acts committed by enemy nations,” and the law probably did not offer a good basis for Trump’s proclamation, according to the New York Times.
ACLU lawyer told the New York Times to believe that there are two Venecuelan immigrants’ planes in the air on Sunday in the air. BBC did not confirm that report.
The case will now move through the legal system and could go all the way to the Supreme Court.
The proclamation and struggle over her should gather Trump’s supporters, who have largely brought him back to the White House for the promise to break the illegal immigration and overthrow the prices of everyday goods. Ever since he was inaugurated in January, he has quickly worked on overhaul of the American immigration system.
The groups for the rights, together with some legal experts, call for an invitation to unprecedented, noting that the Law on Aliens Enemies has been used in the past after officially declaring war against other countries. According to the Constitution, only Congress can declare war.
All Venezuelan nationals in the United States who are at least 14 years old, members of the de Aragua and “are not really naturalized or legal permanent residents” were to be “arrested, restrained, secured and removed as aliens”, according to Trump’s order.
Trump did not exhibit a proclamation that US officials would determine that a person is a member of a violent, transnational gang.
Using this law, instead of the Immigration Act that already gives him “sufficient authority” to deport the gang members, Trump would not have to prove that the detainees are part of de Aragua, said Katherine Yon Ebright, an adviser at the Brennan Center for Justice in a statement.
“He wants to bypass any need to provide evidence or convince the judge that someone is actually a gang member before deporting them,” she said.
“The only reason for calling for such a power is to try to enable the detention and deportation of Venezuelan on the basis of their origin, not to any gang activity that could be proven in an immigration procedure.”
