The Supreme Court early Saturday morning paused the deportation of immigrants potentially subject to the Alien Enemies Act, freezing action in a fast-developing case involving a group of immigrants in Texas who say the Trump administration was working to remove them.

The Supreme Court temporarily blocked the Trump administration from deporting a group of Venezuelans detained in Texas, granting them a reprieve from being imminently sent to a notorious prison in El Salvador.

The Trump administration must work to return a wrongly deported Maryland man, a federal appeals court said Thursday, rejecting a request to block a lower court's order requiring his return. The big picture: The administration is resisting court orders to return Kilmar Armando Ábrego García from a notorious Salvadorian prison,

In a series of lawsuits, plaintiffs including 22 Democratic state attorneys general, immigrant rights advocates and some expectant mothers argued that Trump's order violates a right enshrined in the U.

The Trump administration had asked the justices to lift a nationwide pause on the policy as lower court challenges continue.

Trump's lawyers have urged the high court to allow a ban on birthright citizenship to take effect in parts of the country.