Supreme Court Allows US to Deport Venezuelans Under Alien Enemies Act

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An appeals court had rejected Trumpโ€™s request to stay Judge James Boasbergโ€™s orders blocking deportations under the Alien Enemies Act.

The Supreme Court granted President Donald Trumpโ€™s request to halt a federal judgeโ€™s orders preventing his administration from using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to deport suspected members of a Venezuelan gang.

โ€œWe grant the application and vacate the [temporary restraining orders],โ€ the court said in a per curiam, or unsigned opinion, on April 7. The decision applied to two original restraining orders and an extension issued last month by U.S. District Judge James Boasberg.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor penned a dissent that was joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson. Justice Amy Coney Barrett partially joined Sotomayorโ€™s dissent.

The unsigned opinion agreed with the administrationโ€™s position that the proper avenue for potential deportees to obtain due process was through habeas corpus, which plaintiffs abandoned early in the case. It also echoed concerns D.C. Circuit Judge Justin Walker expressed about the plaintiffs potentially bringing the case in the wrong federal district court.

โ€œDetainees are confined in Texas, so venue is improper in the District of Columbia,โ€ the Supreme Court opinion read. It added that while individuals were entitled to an opportunity to challenge their removal, the proper venue was โ€œthe district of confinement,โ€ or where the plaintiffs were confined.

The court stated that โ€œAEA detainees must receive notice after the date of this order that they are subject to removal under the Act. The notice must be afforded within a reasonable time and in such a manner as will allow them to actually seek habeas relief in the proper venue before such removal occurs.โ€

Both Sotomayor and Jackson, who issued a separate dissent, argued that the court was acting too quickly and should have considered the issue more carefully.

โ€œThe majority flouts well-established limits on its jurisdiction, creates new law on the emergency docket, and elides the serious threat our intervention poses to the lives of individual detainees,โ€ Sotomayor wrote.

The decision came days after the Supreme Court granted the administrationโ€™s request to block a lower court order halting its plan to freeze education grants over concerns about diversity, equity, and inclusion.

Byย Sam Dorman

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