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In a ruling handed down Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court blocked President Donald Trump and his administration from deporting illegal immigrants who have been identified as being part of the violent Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang from the country.
The unsigned order handed the case back to the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals for further proceedings and stated, "The Government may remove the named plaintiffs or putative class members under other lawful authorities." Dissenting were Justices Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas.
The ruling stated that a District Court denied a motion for a temporary restraining order on April 17, and "hours later," defendants were served notices of removal under the Act and told they would be moved "tonight or tomorrow." The order continued, "Evidence now in the record (although not all before us on April 18) suggests that the Government had in fact taken steps on the afternoon of April 18 toward removing detainees under the AEA—including transporting them from their detention facility to an airport and later returning them to the facility.
The court continued, citing the ongoing case regarding Kilmar Abrego Garcia, "Had the detainees been removed from the United States to the custody of a foreign sovereign on April 19, the Government may have argued, as it has previously argued, that no US court had jurisdiction to order relief."
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