The Supreme Court of the United States had stopped the deportation of migrants from Venezuela on Saturday based on a 18th century law. The Supreme Court arranged after human rights lawyers made an urgent application to stop the deportation of migrants recorded in a facility in the US state of Texas.
The two conservative judges Samuel Alito and Clarence Thomas criticized the suspension of the deportations by the Supreme Court in a different opinion. Alito spoke of a “legally questionable” decision that had been made in the middle of the night without listening to the opposite side.
Trump had appointed a law against “foreign enemies” (Alien Enemies Act) from 1798 last month to have Venezuelan migrants brought to a high -security prison in El Salvador. The US President accuses the migrant to belong to the criminal Latin American gang tren de Aragua.
The Alien Enemies Act allows US presidents to arrest or deport citizens of an enemy nation. It was used three times in US history-in the British-American War of 1812, in the First World War and especially in World War II.
Before the 2024 presidential election, Trump had made an election campaign with a tough course against irregular migration. The right-wing populist Republican has promised the largest deportation campaign in US history. His procedure is highly controversial and repeatedly joins legal hurdles.
Human rights groups and the opposition Democrats accuse the US government to disregard the rights of migrants in the deportations. “We are increasingly approaching a constitutional crisis,” said democratic senator Amy Klobuchar on Sunday to the news channel CNN.
