The Venezuelan illegal immigrants suing President Donald Trump over his use of the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to deport them are asking the Supreme Court to reject his appeal of a lower court order blocking the deportations.
The district court’s block “ensures that, based on an unprecedented peacetime invocation of the AEA, additional individuals are not hurried off to a brutal foreign prison, potentially for the rest of their lives, without judicial process,” attorneys for the illegal immigrants said in an April 1 brief to the Supreme Court.
They also said that the administration misapplied the 227-year-old AEA, which they said contained language (“invasion” and “predatory incursion”) that refers “only to military action in the context of an actual or imminent war” and “not criminal activity by a gang during peacetime.” Tren de Aragua (TdA), the gang in question, is not a “foreign government or nation,” the attorneys said….