Lawyers for a group of Venezuelan immigrants detained at Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas, filed emergency habeas petitions on Friday after reports from inside the prison indicated the Trump administration was about to remove them, potentially to the notorious CECOT prison in El Salvador.

The undocumented Venezuelan immigrants held at Bluebonnet were given documents telling them they would be deported and pressured to sign forms affirming their alleged membership in the gang Tren de Aragua, according to a legal filing asking a federal judge in the Northern District of Texas to block their removals.

The habeas petition filed on Friday in the case of A.A.R.P. v. Trump seeks class-wide protection for all detainees at Bluebonnet who the administration claims are subject to removal under the Alien Enemies Act.

On March 14, President Donald Trump declared that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua was engaged in an “invasion” of the U.S. and that all members of the gang 14 years old and up would be classified as “alien enemies” subject to summary removal without ordinary legal protections. The administration removed over 250 Venezuelan and Salvadoran immigrants to CECOT in El Salvador on March 15, largely under the authority of the Alien Enemies Act.

Federal courts intervened to block future removals, but the Supreme Court reversed them and authorized continued removals. However, the Supreme Court said those deemed “alien enemies” must have adequate warning of their removal and be allowed to file habeas petitions in the jurisdiction of their detention to contest their designation as “alien enemies” and their removals.

Lawyers for those in imminent peril of being sent to the prison in El Salvador declared that the administration had not provided their clients or others held at Bluebonnet with enough time to properly file habeas claims or be heard by the courts, as ordered by the Supreme Court.

“These removals could … occur before this matter may be heard and before the government’s response within 24 hours,” the petition for a temporary restraining order states.

The potentially imminent removal of Venezuelans held at Bluebonnet came to light after detainees reported to their lawyers and family members that they were being pressured to sign forms only provided in English that would affirm their alleged membership in Tren de Aragua.

One lawyer’s client, F.G.M., “was approached by ICE officers, accused of being a member of Tren de Aragua, and told to sign papers in English, but F.G.M., who speaks only Spanish, refused,” a declaration from his lawyer, Karene Brown, says.

“An English-speaking Venezuelan man” then told F.G.M. that the notice “classified F.G.M. as a TdA gang member” and said “that they will be deported either today or tomorrow to Venezuela.”

The wife of a detained Venezuelan reached out to immigration lawyer Michelle Brané on Thursday to state that her husband called from Bluebonnet and said that “Venezuelans at Bluebonnet are receiving notices accusing them of being in Tren de Aragua and saying they will be deported.” The detained man also shared a TikTok video of those detained recounting what was happening inside the detention center.

“They are taking us and making us seem as foreign enemies, like El Tren De Aragua,” one man says in Spanish in the TikTok video. “They don’t let us call our family, we are talking here because someone lent us a phone quickly. They are telling us they don’t know where we will be sent. They are telling us we have to be removed quickly because we are a threat to the country.”

“We are not members of El Tren De Aragua. We are normal, civil people,” another detainee says. “They are making us sign a mandatory deportation. If we sign or don’t we will be deported anyways. We exhort the president to help us.”

“We don’t have a deportation order. I have all my documents/papers in order,” he continued. “I have American children. They arrested me without a deportation order and want to deport me. It’s an injustice.”

“We are not part of El Tren,” a third detainee, who identifies himself as Rodriguez, states. “Share this message on social media, family members please, drop your names, we really are being treated badly in this country.”

The filings in the case seeking to prevent their removal show that the administration is relying on faulty indicators to claim membership in Tren de Aragua as it has in its prior removals. These include tattoos, clothing, social media posts and, in a new revelation, the use of emojis.

W.M.M., who is listed on the habeas application with A.A.R.P., “fled Venezuela after the Venezuelan military harassed and assaulted him because they believed that he did not support the Maduro regime,” according to his habeas petition.

“At his hearing on the warrant, the government alleged that W.M.M. is affiliated with TdA based on emojis used in W.M.M.’s social media feed, and a comment left by another individual on a social media post,” the petition states.

The government also alleges that W.M.M. is a gang member because he was arrested at a residence with another alleged Tren de Aragua member, although he was never charged with a crime.

Another detainee, Y.S.M., a 19-year-old Venezuelan detained with his father, was labeled a member of Tren de Aragua by the government because a photograph posted to Facebook showed him with another person holding a gun. The gun, however, “was in fact a water pistol,” a declaration from Y.S.M.’s lawyer states.

The government claims that A.A.R.P., who similarly fled Venezuela after he was “persecuted there” for his “political beliefs and for publicly protesting against the current Venezuelan government,” is a Tren de Aragua member due to tattoos, including “a clock that shows the date and time of his son’s birth, a cross, and the Virgin Mary.”

Just 10% of the 238 immigrants sent to CECOT on March 15 were found to have serious criminal charges, like assault, illegal possession of a firearm, or theft, against them, a report by Bloomberg found. The rest were simply cited for immigration or traffic violations.

District Court Judge James Wesley Hendrix, a Trump appointee, ordered the government to respond to Friday’s petition by April 23. On Thursday, Hendrix denied the petitioners’ request for a temporary restraining order preventing their removal under the Alien Enemies Act before their habeas petitions can be heard by stating that the government claims they are not at “imminent risk of summary removal.”