A group of Venezuelan men in immigration custody in Texas and local prisons in New York filed a federal civil lawsuit against President Trump and other administration officials on Saturday asking a federal judge to block future immigrant removals under a war law known as the 1798 alien enemies law. The judge on Saturday evening stated that he would issue a command temporarily blocking the law.
Trump invoked the 227 -year -old war law on Saturday.
The lawsuit filed in the Washington Federal Court, DC, by lawyers with the ACLU and the striker of democracy argues that the law of aliens enemies is “a war measure that has been used only three times in the history of our nation: the 1812 War War, World War I and Second World War.”
Presidents receive extraordinary power by Law of 227 years Sort the arrest, arrest and deportation of non -citizens who are 14 years of age or older and come from countries that launch a “United States invasion or predatory incursion”
James E. Boasberg, chief judge of the North District District Court -Columbia American on Saturday implemented a temporary containment order that prevents deportation for 14 days. The Department of Justice appealed this decision, arguing that the DC court has no authority on the case because none of the five men is in the district. Four are in arrest in Texas and one in New York. They also say that the invocation of the law of aliens enemies is “speculation”.
At that time, during an emergency audience following Saturday evening, Boasberg expanded his order to include all non -citizens covered by Mr. Trump’s move to invoke the alien enemies law.
Boasberg also seemed to indicate that deporting flights currently in the air with migrants subjected to this order on board should be returned to the United States
The lawsuit claims that Mr. Trump “is expected to authorize the immediate removal of non -citizens that the proclamation considers to be alien enemies, without any opportunity for court review.”
“It also contorts the simple language of the act: the arrivals of the non -citizens of Venezuela are considered a” invasion “or a” predatory raid “by a” foreign nation “, where it is considered that Aragua train, a Venezuelan band, is considered to be similar to a foreign nation or government.”
As such, the Government can identify any Venezuelan in the United States as a member of this group, regardless of the facts and intends to deport them, according to the demand.
In civil demand, men also argue that alien enemies law “has only been invoked in war time and only applied to warlike actions: it cannot be used here against a country’s nationals – Venezuela – with whom the United States are not at war, which is not invading the United States and has not launched a predatory incursion into the United States.”
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