A federal appeals court on Tuesday ruled against President Trump's use of an 18th century wartime law to rapidly deport Venezuelan migrants, finding "no invasion or predatory incursion."

The Trump administration deported hundreds of accused Tren de Aragua gang members earlier this year using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, an obscure law that allows the president to remove citizens of an enemy country during an "invasion or predatory incursion." Some of those migrants were later flown to a supermax prison in El Salvador — though many of the detainees were sent to Venezuela as part of a prisoner swap in July.

The strategy has drawn a litany of court challenges, many of which argue the U.S. isn't facing an "invasion" or migrants aren't receiving enough due process to contest their

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