An American official tells ABC News that he is planning for an imminent US military deportation flight under the Alien enemies law.
The development occurs when the lawyers of several Venezuelan migrants who are arrested in a Texas detention center said that they believe that their clients have an “imminent risk” of being deported to El Salvador under the AEA.
“The petitioners have learned that Bluebonnet officers have distributed notices under the Alien Enemies Law, only in English, who designate Venezuelan men for removal under the AEA, and have told men that the removals are imminent and that they will happen tonight or tomorrow,” lawyers said for the American civil libertades union in a presentation.
In a 5-4 decision earlier this month, the Supreme Court ruled that the Trump administration could resume deportations of alleged members of Venezuelan gangs under the alien enemies law, but said that detainees should receive due process to challenge their elimination.
The declarations of the ACLU lawyers were presented hours after a federal judge in Texas denied the request of the ACLU of a temporary restriction order, saying in an order on Thursday afternoon that the ACLU “did not comply with its load to show a substantial threat of imminent and irreparable injuries.”
The judge said that because the Government previously declared that the authorities would not eliminate the petitioners during the litigation of the case, the ACLU “has not made a sufficient demonstration at this stage to convince the court that the Government will violate their representations to that sense.”
After several lawyers filed statements saying that several of their clients were informed by immigration and customs agents that Customs agents who were being sent to El Salvador, ACLU presented a new emergency application for a temporary restriction order.
The exterior of the terrorist confinement center as Secretary of National Security Kristi Noem arrives, in Tecoluca, El Salvador, March 26, 2025.
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“In the hours after the order of this court on the tro, the lawyer of the lawyer Brown, FGM, was contacted by ICE officers, accused of being a member of the Train of Aragua, and told him to sign documents in English,” said the lawyers of the ACLU. “Ice told him that the newspapers” came from the president, and that he will be deported even if he did not sign it. “
In a statement, Michelle Brane, executive director of Together and Free, said that Luis Yoender Mercado’s sister, arrested at the Bluebonnet detention center in Texas, called her sister and informed her that the officers told a group of Venezuelans who were being sent to El Salvador.
Brane also linked a video of Tiktok in his statement that seems to be a video call between a family member and a detained individual who showed photos of a warning that he allegedly received saying that he will be eliminated.
In the video, the man says in Spanish: “We need help … They say we are enemies … Train members of Aragua. They are saying that they will eliminate us.”
As part of its immigration repression, the Trump administration invoked the alien enemies law last month, a war authority used to eliminate non -citizens with a process of little or less because they deport two plans of plans of the alleged alleged migrant gang to the mega prison of CECOT in El Salvador by arguing that the United States of Venezuela Train of Aragua are a “criminal hybrid state.”
