ORANGE COUNTY, N.Y.—A federal judge on April 9 granted a temporary restraining order prohibiting the deportations of two Venezuelan men held at the Orange County Jail without due process of law.
The two detainees filed the petition immediately after the Supreme Court reversed a lower court’s nationwide block on President Donald Trump’s executive order targeting Venezuelan gang members in the country.
Trump’s executive order, issued on March 15, invoked the rarely used Alien Enemies Act to arrest and deport Venezuelan nationals who are members of Tren de Aragua, a transnational criminal organization based in Venezuela.
According to the petition, one detainee, a 32-year-old Venezuelan national under the pseudonym of J.G.O., had publicly protested the socialist rule under Nicolás Maduro in his home country before crossing the U.S. border via El Paso, Texas, in September 2022….