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New York Times
9 Apr 2025
Jonah E. Bromwich


NextImg:New York and Texas Rulings Curb Deportations of Venezuelans to El Salvador

Two federal judges issued separate orders on Wednesday placing road blocks in the Trump administration’s continuing efforts to use a powerful wartime statute to deport Venezuelan migrants accused of being gang members to El Salvador.

The twin rulings, in New York and Texas, were in direct response to a Supreme Court decision handed down on Monday that overturned a similar order issued last month by a federal judge in Washington. They suggest that even though President Trump declared victory when the justices weighed in on the matter, the battle over using the wartime law, the Alien Enemies Act, to deport migrants is certain to persist.

In its decision, the Supreme Court found that migrants subject to deportation under the act need to be given notice before being removed from the country so that they can challenge the process in court. But those challenges, the justices said, are required to be made in the places where the migrants are being held.

On Tuesday, two Venezuelans being held in a detention center in the town of Goshen, in Orange County, N.Y., asked Judge Alvin K. Hellerstein to shield them from being deported.

Judge Hellerstein, at a hearing on Wednesday in Federal District Court in Manhattan, issued a narrow decision in their case. He said that any Venezuelan migrants in his judicial district, the Southern District of New York, subject to deportation under the statute have to be given the opportunity to have a hearing before they are removed from the country.

“It seems to me that people need to be protected,” Judge Hellerstein said.

In a broader decision handed down in Federal District Court in Brownsville, Texas, Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr. said that the administration cannot use the Alien Enemies Act to remove any Venezuelans being held at the El Valle Detention Center, in Raymondville, near the southern border, until at least April 23.


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