The Trump administration took its battle over deporting Venezuelans to the Supreme Court Friday, asking the justices to allow officials to continue deporting Venezuelans under a wartime law and overturn a ruling from a district court judge that required the administration to stop deporting people before they could be heard in court.
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Judge James Boasberg previously ruled the Trump administration had to stop deporting Venezuelans under the Alien Enemies Act, saying the move was violating their due process rights.
Trump’s team has been deporting Venezuelan nationals the administration claims have a connection to the criminal organization Tren de Aragua, though some immigration attorneys have alleged not all people deported were members of the gang.
Lawyers for Trump argued in court Friday that this issue is too urgent to wait for the case to make its way through lower court rulings, The New York Times reported.
This story is developing and will be updated.
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