Buses transporting at least 28 illegal migrants most from Venezuelan were in the process of being deported before a Supreme Court intervention forced the process to abort on Friday

Detainees were heading from the Immigration and Customs Enforcement Detention Center in Bluebonnet,Texas, to Abilene Airport in buses accompanied by a motorcade

President Trump signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 allowing him to deport persons so designated

He had accused Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua of “perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States”

238 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua were deported to El Salvador where they are still housed in a notorious supermax prison, despite not being from that country

SCOTUS in a 7-2 decision forced the Trump administration to temporarily halt the deportation of and the detainees were sent back to the Bluebonnet detention facility238 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had arrived

Footage shows how buses conveying Venezuelan detainees headed to the airport for deportation are turned around by a Supreme Court halt order issued in response by an emergency ACLU filing

Extraordinary footage has emerged showing busloads of Venezuelan detainees in the process of being deported before a Supreme Court order halted the process, for now at least.
The buses NBC, reported, loaded with at least 28 migrants, were heading from the ICE Detention Center in Bluebonnet to Abilene Airport on Friday
The Immigration and Customs Enforcement buses were closely followed by a motorcade of 18 squad cars from varying law enforcement agencies, only for the detainees, comprising mainly of Venezuelans, were driven back to the detention center after a Supreme Court ordered a halt.
Last month more than 200 Venezuelans whom the White House alleged to be gang members reportedly, were deported from the US to a supermax prison in El Salvador, in the face of a ruling by a US judge which blocked the removals.
That order in March by the federal judge prevented the Trump administration from invoking a centuries-old wartime law to justify some of the deportations, but the flights had already departed.
President Nayib Bukele of El Salvador, at the time wrote on social media that 238 members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua had arrived in the country, along with 23 members of the international MS-13 gang.

Conservative Justices Samuel Alito [sitting, second right] and Clarence Thomas [sitting, second left), issued an extraordinarily strong dissent to the seven-member majority decision

Come Friday April 19, after SCOTUS ruled against continued deportations. However, two conservative justices, Clarence Thomas and Samuel Alito, dissented.
Mr Justice Samuel Alito, issued a fiery minority opinion dissenting to the ruling – which forced the Trump administration to temporarily halt the deportation of any Venezuelans held in a northern Texas detention facility under an 18th-century wartime law.
In his minority opinion, Justice Alito cited a government lawyer who insisted the administration had no intention of deporting anyone on Good Friday or Easter Saturday.
Judy Maldonado Rall’s husband was one of the detainees whose deportation was halted by SCOTUS.
According to the report after the buses were turned around, a guard told her husband: ‘Well, you were lucky you were sent back because you were going to El Salvador, not Venezuela’ – the supermax prison in El Salvador where the Trump administration previously sent more than 200 suspected gang members. 
Eduardo Dabion Rall, a Venezuelan, complained of maltreatment inside the Bluebonnet Detention Center, describing attempts by DHS to coerce detainees to sign a removal order that would have sent them to places different from their countries of origin. Some of the men reportedly, refused to sign.

The Immigration and Customs Enforcement buses closely followed [photo], by a motorcade of 18 squad cars from varying law enforcement agencies headed for the airport in Texas, on Friday

The Trump administration reportedly, was attempting to deport the alleged gangsters under the 18th century Alien Enemies Act, which allows the president to deport enemies in times of war. Rarely used, the Act was last implemented against people of Japanese origin during WW II.
In March, President Donald Trump announced that he had signed a proclamation invoking the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 as he accused Tren de Aragua of “perpetrating, attempting, and threatening an invasion or predatory incursion against the territory of the United States”.
In the footage, the motorcade reaches the airport but passes by the exit and loops back around, returning to Bluebonnet detention facility.
That evening, the Supreme Court was weighing an urgent request to block the administration from conducting any deportations.
While challenges have been filed in various courts since the controversial invoking of the Act. On Friday evening the American Civil Liberties Union, [ACLU], lodged the emergency filing on Friday contending that immigration authorities appeared to be moving to restart removals under the Alien Enemies Act. They were accusing men in the Texas detention facility of being members of the notorious Tren de Aragua gang.
That accusation leaves detainees vulnerable to deportation under the act.
Simultaneously Judge James Boasberg was hearing a case on the same matter. Lee Gelernt, a lawyer representing the American Civil Liberties Union, told the court: ‘We hear they are on buses on the way to the airport.’

Alien Enemies Act of 1798 allows the President to forcibly remove citizens of an ‘enemy nation’ who it deems to be ‘dangerous to the peace and safety of the United States’ or involved in ‘treasonous’ acts. However, detainees have being dumped in nations other than their country of origin

Judge Boasberg whose previous ruling ordering the administration to turn around the planes carrying deportees to ensure due process went ignored, sprung into action instructing Justice Department lawyer, Drew Ensign, to ensure no detainee at Bluebonnet was being deported under the Alien Enemies Act on Friday night.  
By early Saturday morning, a 7-2 Supreme Court majority ruled Trump must not deport any Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet detention facility in Texas.
Alito’s minority opinion argued that the court acted ‘literally in the middle of the night’ and with ‘dubious factual support’ to take the extraordinary measure of blocking the government.

A relative of a reprieved detainee said the group on Friday were being shipped to the same mega-jail in El Salvador where members of the vicious gangs are held, [photo], with some detainees claiming they’ve been targeted and wrongly associated with feared gangs due to their tattoos

Alito said the legal filings, ‘while alleging that the applicants were in imminent danger of removal, provided little concrete support for that allegation.’ 
He noted that while the court did not hear directly from the government regarding any planned deportations under the Alien Enemies Act in this case, a government lawyer in a different matter had told a US District Court in a hearing Friday evening that no such deportations were then planned to occur on Good Friday or Easter Saturday.
The Department of Homeland Security who has not clarified why the bus from the facility was turned around near the airport, maintain that ‘Both the Executive and the Judiciary have an obligation to follow the law.’
Significantly, the DHS has warned staffers to ‘follow established procedures’ in the decision-making process.

President Donald Trump [photo], has repeatedly slammed the many legal challenges to his policy, which was one of his promises on the campaign trail, as a Conservatives SCOTUS he helped create, halted deportations in an overwhelming majority decision

The Supreme Court he said, acted ‘without giving the lower courts a chance to rule, without hearing from the opposing party, within eight hours of receiving the application, with dubious factual support for its order, and without providing any explanation for its order, a ICE spokes person claims: ‘Literally in the middle of the night, the Court issued unprecedented and legally questionable relief.’
‘I refused to join the Court’s order because we had no good reason to think that, under the circumstances, issuing an order at midnight was necessary or appropriate.’
Conservatives hold a majority in the Supreme Court, but high profile Trump appointees Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett signed off on the majority order..
The majority decision did not provide the typical detailed explanation in the order early Saturday. Rather,
a brief order directed the administration not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center ‘until further order of this court.’

The administration invoked the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to justify sending hundreds of suspected gang members and alleged illegal migrants to a the supermax prison in El Salvador, last month

Handing out that ruling, The highest court in the country, previously said deportations could proceed only after those about to be removed had a chance to argue their case in court. They were to be granted ‘a reasonable time’ to contest their pending removals. 
Till date the more than 200 suspected gang members remain displace, incarcerated in an El Salvadorian prison as the Trump administration makes good on its promise to crack down on illegal migration.
The move sparked legal challenges and widespread division amid concerns that some of the people rounded up and deported were mistakenly targeted.
At the center of the division is 29-year-old father Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who supporters say was wrongly deported. 

Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia, [photo], was deported to a Salvadoran high-security prison in March accused of being an MS-13 gang member, leaving behind his wife and children. The family from Ecuador arrived in the United States in 2011

In a minority opinion, Mr. Justice Samuel Alito [photo], wrote that the legal [ACLU], filings, ‘while alleging that the applicants were in imminent danger of removal, provided little concrete support for that allegation,’

The Trump administration later Saturday filed paperwork urging the high court to reconsider its hold. 
Press secretary Karoline Leavitt wrote on X: ‘We are confident we will ultimately prevail against the onslaught of meritless litigation brought by radical activists.’
While challenges have been filed in various courts since the controversial invoking of the Act. The filing by the American Civil Liberties Union lodged the emergency filing on Friday evening concluded ended in a majority decision early Saturday. The order did not provide a typical detailed explanation. Rather, a brief order directed the administration not to remove Venezuelans held in the Bluebonnet Detention Center ‘until further order of this court.’
Despite the conservative majority in the Supreme Court, but Trump appointees Brett Kavanaugh and Amy Coney Barrett signed off on the majority decision.