He Supreme Court of the United States ordered to suspend the Venezuelan deportations to El Salvador until new order, in response to emergency resources filed by the American Union of Civil Liberties (ACLU).
ACLU denounced that the former president’s administration Donald Trump He tried to restart mass expulsions under a war law of the eighteenth century.
The Supreme decision was known hours after a Federal Court of Appeals It will also block the elimination of Temporary Protection Status (TPS)which protects from deportation to about 350 thousand Venezuelan migrants regularly in the US.
The affected Venezuelans are detained in a center for migrants in northern Texas and are indicated by Trump’s government to be linked to the Aragua Train (ADD)a transnational criminal organization that originated in a Venezuelan prison.
In total, UU. Has sent more than 200 migrants, mostly Venezuelans, to this jail, accusing them of belonging to the Aragua train.
The Republican Administration invoked on March 14 the 1798 foreign enemies lawa rule that gives the president exceptional powers to order the Detention and deportation of citizens of “enemies” without the usual legal processes. This law has been applied only on three previous occasions, all in war contexts. The most recent was during the Second World Warwhen thousands of American Japanese origin were admitted without trial.
In his ruling, the Supreme Court acted with two votes against – the judges Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito– And he ordered that “Do not be expelled from the United States to any member of the detainee group until new order of this Court”
Last week, the same court had authorized deportations only if those affected were notified in reasonable advance And they had the opportunity to challenge the judicial measurepresenting a resource of habeas corpus Before your expulsion.
However, the ACLU He warned that migrants received notifications in English, although many do not dominate the language, and were not informed of their right to challenge the designation as “foreign enemies.”
The organization warned that, without judicial intervention, dozens or hundreds of people could face Perpetual chain in El Salvadorwithout access to adequate legal defense.