A federal appeals court panel ruled that President Donald Trump cannot use the the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to speed up deportations of people his administration deemed to be members of a Venezuelan gang on Tuesday (September 2), the Associated Press reports.

The three-judge 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, which is among the most conservative federal appeals courts in the United States, sided with immigrant rights lawyers and lower court judges who argued that the 18th-century wartime law wasn't intended to be used against gangs like Tren de Aragua .

“The Trump administration’s use of a wartime statute during peacetime to regulate immigration was rightly shut down by the court. This is a critically important decision reining in the administration’s view that it can simply

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