Supreme Court Blocks Deportations; Imprisonment in El Salvador; US-Iran Nuclear Talks
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What recent Supreme Court ruling affects Venezuelan deportations?
The Supreme Court has temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans.
The administration accuses the men of being gang members. I'm Scott Simon.
I'm Ayesha Roscoe, and this is Up First from NPR News.
The overnight Supreme Court ruling came as the Trump administration was preparing to deport the men being held in Texas under a rarely used wartime act. We'll have the latest.
This week, President Trump also raised the possibility of sending U.S. citizens convicted of crimes to prison in El Salvador. But does he have the authority to follow through?
And the U.S. and Iran are today holding a second round of talks to discuss Tehran's nuclear program.
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The Supreme Court's late-night order to stop the deportation of the Venezuelan men followed an emergency appeal from the American Civil Liberties Union.
The court took issue with the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act.
We're joined now by NPR's Ximena Bastillo. Ximena, thanks for being with us.
Good morning.
What's the order say?
What is the Trump administration's use of the Alien Enemies Act?
Well, in a brief order issued after midnight Eastern time, justices wrote that the government is directed to not remove any member of the, quote, putative class of detainees from the United States until further order from the court. These would be some of the Venezuelan migrants being held at the Blue Bonnet facility in Texas. Justices Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito dissented.
And what spurred this order?
Well, earlier, the Supreme Court had decided that the administration could continue deporting under the act. This was a few weeks ago. But only if detainees were given due process to challenge their removal under the Alien Enemies Act. The American Civil Liberties Union Friday afternoon filed multiple documents in court that showed immigration authorities were moving quickly to restart removals under the Alien Enemies Act, despite the previous Supreme Court's request for that due process. Here's Lee Gelern, one of the lawyers from the ACLU who spoke with my colleague Jasmine Garst.
The government has now given them no notice, given them forms in English that doesn't explain to them how to contest their removal.
He said people got less than a day to contest their removal. So the ACLU filed for a request to have the courts pause the deportations at the D.C. District Court. Judge James Boesberg denied that request because he said he did not believe he had jurisdiction. That prompted the immediate appeal from the ACLU and then the later decision from the Supreme Court.
In a minute, please remind us what the Supreme Court said when the issue was first brought to them.
The Alien Enemies Act is a rarely used presidential power that Trump invoked last month, right? And it has only been previously used in times of active war, the last time being World War II. Immigrant rights groups originally sued the administration over the use of the act when over 100 people were put on flights and sent to El Salvador, where they're now in a mega prison.
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