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José Olivares in New York

White House asks supreme court to allow deportations under wartime law

prison guards stand near a building that says 'CECOT'
The Trump administration wants to transport detainees to the Cecot megaprison in El Salvador. Photograph: Marvin Recinos/AFP via Getty Images

The Trump administration on Friday asked the US supreme court to intervene to allow the government to continue to deport immigrants using the obscure Alien Enemies Act.

The request came one day after a federal appeals court upheld a Washington DC federal judge’s temporary block on immigrant expulsions via a wartime act that allows the administration to bypass normal due process, for example by allowing people a court hearing before shipping them out of the US.

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