Attorneys for a group of Venezuelan migrants that the Trump administration has accused of being Bende members asked the Supreme Court Friday to block what they think is an impending new wave of deportations.
Dozens of the men have been told that they will be removed according to the foreign enemies law, lawyers with ACLU wrote in an admission of the Friday court. Some are already held at Bluebonnet detention center in Annation, Texas and fears deportation, the lawyers said in a Texas Tingrett.
The lawyer team launched challenges in several courts on Friday and emphasized the urgent nature of the situation.
In a related case in Washington, DC about the Venezuelan migrants, a lawyer for the Ministry of Justice said on Friday he had spoken to the Department of Homeland Security. “They are not aware of any current plans for flights tomorrow, but I have also been told to say that they reserve the right to remove people tomorrow,” he said.
The migrants “have an imminent risk of summary removal of places, such as El Salvador, where they face life -threatening conditions, persecution and torture and can remain the rest of their lives, Incommunicado,” the lawyers wrote in their archiving to the Supreme Court.
Not only are immigrants facing “serious harm”, but the government “seems to be performing removal without any proper process,” they argued.
ACLU lawyers filed a photo of a message that some of the migrants had received, which shows the government has decided they were members of the TREN de Aragua band. These messages were written only in English; Some migrants only understand Spanish and refused to sign, the lawyers said. The document shows a red stamp that says “refused to sign” on the signature line.
“There is no box to check to say that I want to contest,” said ACLU -Attorney Lee Gelernt at a hearing on Friday night at the federal court in Washington., Washington Post reported. “There is nothing that says there is the right to compete, much less the time frame.”
The Texas Court later rejected the ACLU -Attorney’s request, partly with reference to the tight deadline. The lawyers had noticed that if the judge did not give a temporary detention order or agreed to hold a status conference before 1 p.m. 13.30 – approx. 45 minutes after they filed their emergencies – they would seek exemption from an appeal. The lawyers then filed the united states’ appeal law for the fifth circuit.
This month, the Supreme Court gave up that the Trump administration has the authority to deport migrants under the Aliens Enemy Act. But it also ordered the government to give detention an opportunity to contest their removal in legal districts closest to the detention centers where they are being held.
ACLU claimed that immigrants are picked up and moved to different places so quickly that it is difficult to arrange representation before being sent out of the country.
A spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security refused to comment on ACLU’s claims in its archives. “We will not reveal the details of counterrorism operations, but we are complying with the Supreme Court’s decision,” Tricia McLaughlin told The post in a statement.
When asked about the planned deportations, President Donald Trump told journalists Friday: “If they are bad people, I would definitely approve it.”