Judges in Texas and New York on Wednesday temporarily barred the U.S. government from deporting Venezuelans jailed in parts of those two states while their lawyers challenge the Trump administration’s use of a rarely invoked law letting presidents imprison noncitizens or expel them from the country in times of war.

Federal judges in New York and Texas on Wednesday issued orders to temporarily halt the deportation of Venezuelan plaintiffs in a lawsuit challenging the Trump administration’s use of the Alien Enemies Act – a wartime authority the administration has invoked to deport alleged gang members without due process.

Federal judges in New York and Texas temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting five Venezuelan men it alleges are gang members by using the Alien Enemies Act.  The American Civil

Either way, the men will get their day in court to argue that it is unlawful to deport them under the Alien Enemies Act.

The Trump administration has conceded that it made a mistake in sending Kilmar Abrego Garcia to a notorious prison in El Salvador but argued it no longer could do anything about it.

The Trump administration is preparing to send more immigrants with criminal records to El Salvador’s notorious mega prison on the heels of a Supreme Court order allowing the use for now of a sweeping wartime authority for deportations,

The Supreme Court said Thursday that the Trump administration is required to "facilitate" the release of a Maryland man who was wrongly deported to an El Salvador prison. The court partly granted and partly rejected an emergency request filed by the Justice Department contesting a judge’s order that Kilmar Abrego Garcia be retrieved from a prison in El Salvador where he was sent March 15 along with men alleged to be Venezuelan gang members.

Meanwhile, Trump revealed Monday in a meeting with Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahy that the U.S. is in direct talks with Iran and the the two countries would soon have "high-level" talks. Trump and Netanyahu discussed Israel's war with Hamas and the tariffs that the U.

U.S. judges in Texas and New York dealt blows on Wednesday to President Donald Trump's effort to revive deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members under a wartime law after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a nationwide ban on such removals.