A federal judge in west Texas joined other courts in temporarily blocking the deportations of Venezuelan immigrants under an 18th-century wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act.U.S. District Judge David Briones in El Paso,

A federal judge in Brownsville extended a temporary restraining order against the Trump administration. The U.S. Supreme Court is considering whether the administration can invoke the centuries-old Alien Enemies Act,

Less than two weeks after the Supreme Court allowed President Donald Trump to use a controversial 18th century wartime authority to speed deportations, the issue has rocketed back to the justices in a second short-fuse appeal with enormous potential consequences.