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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
Kelly Rissman

ACLU makes emergency bid to Supreme Court to halt ‘imminent’ new wave of deportations under Alien Enemies Act

Lawyers for a group of Venezuelan migrants that the Trump administration has accused of being gang members asked the Supreme Court Friday to block what they believe to be an imminent new wave of deportations.

Dozens of the men have been told that they are going to be removed under the Alien Enemies Act imminently, lawyers with the ACLU wrote in a Friday court filing. Some are already being held at Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson, Texas and fear deportation, the attorneys said in a Texas district court.

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