Washington, United States:
The US Supreme Court on Saturday stopped the exile of the alleged Venezuela gang members of the Trump administration under the 18th century law.
US President Donald Trump called for the 1798 Alien Enemy Act (AEA) last month, alleging the migrants of Venezuela of being related to the Train D Arguida gang before taking out the maximum security jail in Al Salvador.
The vague law is used only during the War of 1812, World War I and World War II.
The Supreme Court’s brief order said at the beginning of Saturday, “The government is directed that it does not remove any member of the detainees from the United States until further order of this court.”
The order came after the rights lawyers filed an emergency appeal to prevent the exile of the migrants held at a facility in the southern state of Texas.
The American Civil Liberty Union said in its emergency filing on Friday night that the Group of Venezuela was currently held in Texas that “they would be adjacent to the AEA tonight.”
Lawyers of several already exiled Venezuela people had said that their customers were not members of the train de Argua, they did not commit any crime and were largely targeted on the basis of their tattoos.
Trump, who campaigned on the pledge to expel millions of unspecified migrants, accused Venezuela of “enhancing” the “invasion of the United States” through the entry of the alleged train de Argu members.
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