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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Michael Kunzelman

Appeals court won't halt order barring Trump administration from deportations under wartime law

APTOPIX El Salvador Deportees - (ASSOCIATED PRESS)

A federal appeals court refused Wednesday to lift an order barring the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law.

A split three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit upheld a March 15 order temporarily prohibiting deportations under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798.

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