The administration of President Donald Trump requested the permission of the Supreme Court to deport almost 200 Venezuelan migrants arrested in Texas, asking the Court to raise the court order issued last month that temporarily blocked the deportation of migrants under the law of foreign enemies.
In a presentation on Monday, the Trump administration said that the 176 members of Aragua “have proven to be especially dangerous to maintain prolonged detention.”
According to an affidavit, an immigration official and customs control of the United States said a group of 23 migrants “threatened to take hostages and hurt the staff of the contract of the facilities and ICE officers.”
“The detainees did not comply with the orders to dismantle the barricades and were locked in the Housing Unit for several hours,” said Joshua Johnson, the ICE official.
In the statement, Johnson said the migrant group was transferred from Bluebonnet Detention facility to the Prairieland detention center last week.
“The relocation of the detainees to Prairieland was necessary because the organized and coordinated nature of the bad behavior threatened the security and order of the installation of Bluebonnet and represented a risk for other detainees, personnel, contractors and any visitor within the installation,” said Johnson.
General lawyer D. John Sauer testified during the Confirmation Hearing of the Judicial Committee of the Senate on February 26, 2025.
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In Monday’s presentation, Attorney General D. John Sauer said that Scotus should not block the elimination of the detainees “who have been endangering others while they are detained.”
“One of the key reasons why the Government has decided to use the most expeditious procedures of the AEA to eliminate the alleged members of the class in the first place is due to the dangers posed by the members of TDA while it is detained,” said Sauer in the presentation.
The attorney general also said that migrants have received “adequate notice” and the opportunity to look for habeas requests.
“The three weeks offered here are more than adequate to pursue habeas,” Sauer wrote. “However, as far as the government knows, no member of the alleged class that has received a removal notice in accordance with the AEA that has presented habit requests in the northern district of Texas, while the administrative order has remained in its place.”
Sauer said that the court should modify its recent temporary block to “clarify” that the order only prohibits the elimination of class members under the AEA.
“The vast majority of the members of the supposed class,” according to Sauer, are eligible for the elimination of “immediate” under the authorities of Title 8.
“The difficulty of detaining the alleged members of the class discussed above has now imperative that the government seeks the elimination under authorities other than the AEA, while the administrative mandate of the court remains in place,” said the presentation of the Sauer court.
