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I started already on November 6th to support the #ACLU.
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@Tengrain Time to make another donation to the #ACLU

@emptywheel.bsky.social Proud supporter of #ACLU!

Among those at the Bluebonnet detention center that the #ACLU is seeking to protect from #deportation is a 19-year-old known as Y.S.M.

Y.S.M., court papers say, was arrested by #immigration agents on March 14 & was sent to the Bluebonnet facility this week. When the agents initially questioned him, court papers say, they told him that a photograph on Facebook showing him in the presence of another person holding a gun proved he was a member of Tren de Aragua.

This latest iteration of the fight over the use of the #AlienEnemiesAct began on Wednesday when the #ACLU filed suit in Abilene on behalf of 2 #Venezuelan immigrants being held at the Bluebonnet facility, asking Judge Hendrix to shield them against #deportation. But the judge denied the request, largely because lawyers for the #DOJ told him that the men — known only by their initials, A.A.R.P. & W.M.M. — had not yet been scheduled for removal from the country.

The #ACLU, hoping to come up with a system for determining where those people might be, has asked a federal judge in Washington to issue a nationwide order forcing the govt to provide 30 days’ notice to anyone in the country before officials seek to remove them under the #AlienEnemiesAct.

The efforts by groups like the #ACLU to stop #deportations under the #AlienEnemiesAct were complicated this month by a #SCOTUS ruling that found that anyone subject to the statute needed to be given the opportunity to challenge their removal, but only in the places where they were being detained.

The decision by the justices set off a hunt for anyone who might fall under the authority of #Trump’s proclamation.

When Judge Hendrix did not grant their request quickly — & later rejected it entirely — the #ACLU lawyers filed a similar request to the US Court of Appeals for the #FifthCircuit in New Orleans.

The lawyers then filed an emergency petition to #SCOTUS, asking the justices to step in & issue an immediate pause on any #deportations because many of the #Venezuelan men had “already been loaded on to buses, presumably headed to the airport.”

#ACLU attys started w/an emergency filing in Federal Dist Court in Abilene, #Texas, in which they claimed that officers at the Bluebonnet Detention Center in Anson had started distributing notices to #Venezuelan immigrants informing them that they could face #deportation as soon as Fri night.
They asked Judge Hendrix, who is overseeing the case, to issue an immediate order protecting all immigrants in the Northern District of TX who might face deportation under the #AlienEnemiesAct.

More than 50 #Venezuelans were scheduled to be flown out of the country — presumably to #ElSalvador — from an #immigration detention center in Anson, Texas. The #ACLU in recent days had already secured court orders barring similar deportations under the #law, the #AlienEnemiesAct, in other places including New York, Denver & Brownsville, Texas.

The situation in Anson was urgent enough that ACLU lawyers mounted challenges in 3 different courts within 5 hours on Friday.