By Andrew Chung
(Reuters) – The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday kept in place its block on President Donald Trump’s deportations of Venezuelan migrants under a 1798 law historically used only in wartime after their lawyers said the government was set to remove the men without judicial review in violation of a prior order by the justices.
The justices, after ordering on April 19 a temporary stop to the administration’s deportations of dozens of migrants being held at a detention center in Texas, granted a request by American Civil Liberties Union attorneys representing the migrants to maintain the halt on the removals for now.
The Supreme Court also clarified that the administration was free to pursue deportations under other provisions of U.S. immigration law. Trump’s deportations are part of the Republican president’s immigration crackdown since he returned to office in January.
(Reporting by Andrew Chung in New York; Editing by Will Dunham)
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