A federal judge ordered the Trump administration on Wednesday to facilitate habeas petitions for 238 Venezuelan migrants deported to an infamous mega-prison in El Salvador, finding their summary deportations violated their due process rights.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg granted the migrants’ motion for a preliminary injunction and to certify a class of migrants detained at the Terrorism Confinement Center — known as CECOT — but declined to certify a class of migrants currently in U.S. detention.

The Barack Obama appointee wrote in his 69-page opinion that his ruling does not address the validity of President Donald Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act of 1978, nor his declaration that the migrants were all members of the Tren de Aragua gang.

“But — and this is the crit

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