The Supreme Court has blocked, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th-century wartime law. The court’s brief order directed the Trump administration not

U.S. Supreme Court Justice Samuel Alito criticized the court majority for "hastily and prematurely" blocking the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelan migrants with an emergency ruling in the early morning hours of a holiday weekend.

On Saturday, the court told the administration not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center “until further order of this court.”