Trump administration asks the Supreme Court to have Venezuelan deportations resumed

The Trump government asked the Supreme Court on Monday evening for permission to deport a group of nearly 200 Venezuelan migrants who were accused of being gang members and holding it in Texas.

In one submit The administration argued to the court that “serious difficulties have arisen” through the detention of the group of 176 migrants, which were protected from deportation in a Emergency night By the court mid -April.

According to a statement from a civil servant of a Homeland Security Department included in the court application, a group of 23 migrants had barricaded themselves in a residential unit for a few hours on 26 April. The group threatened to take hostages and harm immigration officers and tried to flood the unit by hiding the toilets, according to the submission.

“The government has a strong interest in immediately removing gang members from the country” who pose a danger to ice officers, facility staff and other prisoners during detention, “wrote lawyer -general D. John Sauer in court.

The details of the episode, which had not been reported before, took place in the BlueBonnet -detention facility in Texas, where migrants “the access doors of their housing unit barricaded with the help of controls, blocked the windows and covered surveillance cameras”, according to a statement of Joshua d.dua d.daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa. Immigrations Dlashandhandhandbi.

The group “then threatened to take hostages” and to “injure” ice officers and staff members of the facility, and “remained barricaded in the residential unit for a few hours,” said Mr. Johnson in the statement.

After the episode, the prisoners were moved to another detention facility in the Northern district of Texas, where they are, Mr. Sauer said. He argued that the episode proved that the migrants were a danger, even while they held, and that the government should be allowed to deport them.

A lawyer for the prisoners did not respond to a request for comments on Monday evening about the descriptions of the court application of what happened, nor a spokesperson for the Homeland Security department.

There have been few public glimpses in the life of the prisoner men in the facility of Texas. Two days after the alleged episode with the 23 migrants, Reuters flew a drone near the detention center, Capture air images of the men loved there. In the Dirt Yard of the BlueBonnet Immigration Detention Center, 31 men were, some who wear red jumpsuits who designate them as a high risk, the letters SOS formed.

The submission marked the last turn in the efforts of the Trump government to deport Venezuelan immigrants who were accused of being a member of the gang of the Aragua.

In March, President Trump proclaimed That he called on the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely used War control law, as a way to deport members of the Venezuelan street gang in the United States. The law, which was adopted in 1798, was used only three times before in American history, during periods of declared war.

The court has weighed twice on the efforts of the administration to deport Venezuelans, it has accused of being violent gang members.

In mid -March, when Mr. Trump announced his proclamation for the first time, a federal judge had moved to pause the deportations, but planeloads were of immigrants Sent to El Salvador Anyway. Since then they have been held there in a prison that has been designated for terrorists.

The Supreme Court agreed at the beginning of April, temporarily The administration to continue using the War Law Act, provided that the migrants gave the opportunity to challenge their deportations in court.

After lawyers received information for immigrants in Texas in mid -April that more than 50 Venezuelans were planned to be flew out of the country and would probably be flown to El Salvador, they clambed to the judicial challenges, including an emergency request at the Supreme Court.

In a nightly judgment, the judges temporarily blocked Further deportations of the Venezuelans group that were held in Texas while considering the issue. Since then, the emergency request has been dealt with.

In Mr Sauer’s application on Monday, he noted that more than three weeks had passed since the court imposed its temporary block.

He again asked that the judges allow the Alien Enemies ACT, but said that the court should at least allow the government to deport the migrants by other legal ways.

Hamed Aleziz has contributed to this report.