A federal judge permanently blocked the Trump administration on Thursday from using the Alien Enemies Act (AEA) to deport foreign gang members. Judge Fernando Rodriguez Jr., a Trump appointee, held the president’s March 15 proclamation invoking the AEA to target members of the Venezuelan Tren de Aragua gang is “unlawful” because the statute has historically only referred to an “organized,

A federal judge in Texas ruled that President Donald Trump improperly invoked a 227-year-old wartime law to deport accused Venezuelan gang members to an El Salvador prison, setting up what may become yet another high-stakes battle at the US Supreme Court.

Mohsen Mahdawi was arrested as part of a crackdown on pro-Palestinian students who were legally studying in the United States.