A federal judge in New York rebuked President Donald Trump's use of the Alien Enemies Act to deport alleged migrant gang members without due process, comparing it to a medieval inquisition.
U.S. District Judge Alvin Hellerstein, at a hearing Tuesday, temporarily extended his April 9 order in which he temporarily blocked detained migrants being held in the Southern District of New York from being deported without due process.
The Trump administration last month touched off a legal battle when it invoked the Alien Enemies Act -- an 18th century wartime authority used to remove noncitizens with little-to-no due process -- to deport two planeloads of alleged migrant gang members to the CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador by arguing that the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua is a "hybrid criminal state" that is invading the United States.
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