Author name: Noah Lanard and Isabela Dias

In a 7-2 ruling on Friday afternoon, the Supreme Court once again barred the Trump administration from removing Venezuelans held at Texas immigration detention centers under the Alien Enemies Act, which gives the government extraordinary powers to summarily deport noncitizens during a “declared war” or “invasion.” The justices found that the federal government violated the […]

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On Friday, Omar Cárdenas Martínez called a relative from the Bluebonnet detention center in Texas to say that he had just been given a notice. Cárdenas had arrived there earlier this week, after being transferred from another US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility, Prairieland, about three hours away in Alvarado. The document stated that […]

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