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,

One judge accused the Trump administration of drastic and un-American tactics in its removal of migrants. “This is not the Inquisition,” he said.

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,