Supreme Court Halts Trump Deportation of Alleged Venezuelan Gang Members: Explainer

On a previous episode, we discussed how the Supreme Court ruled in Trump’s favor in an immigration case—a case involving the deportation of illegal immigrants present here in the United States. However, that earlier case was won by Trump on a technicality: the lawyers for the illegal immigrant decided to file their case in Washington (rather than in Texas, where the man was being held) and, therefore, the case was dismissed due to being brought forth in the wrong venue.

But, very notably, the underlying legal issues weren’t actually examined. The question of whether the Alien Enemies Act could really be used against illegal immigrants such as alleged Venezuelan gang members wasn’t ruled on.

Therefore, more lawsuits were filed. And one of those new lawsuits bore fruit, as the U.S. Supreme Court decided to stop the Trump administration from being able to deport “putative class of detainees.” Meaning, this group of illegal immigrants cannot be deported until the court determines if they share the same legal claims. In other words, there is concern that these people are not given due process to contest the allegations of being associated with the Tren de Aragua gang.

Let’s go through the details together.

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