The Supreme Court on Monday granted President Donald Trump’s request to vacate a lower court's ruling barring the administration from using a 1798 wartime immigration law to immediately deport Venezuelan nationals – including alleged members of the Tren de Aragua gang – from the U.S., marking a significant victory for the administration as it advances key immigration priorities.

Justices on the high court ruled 5-4 to grant the administration's request to lift the stay, in a temporary victory for Trump and his allies.

One of the Venezuelan migrants who is believed to be among the latest group sent to El Salvador on Sunday night was in Guantanamo Bay and had a final order of removal, according to the American Civil Liberties Union (ACLU).

Maiker Espinoza Escalona was the lead plaintiff in one of the Guantanamo cases brought by the ACLU against the Department of Homeland Security filed last month. His partner is currently detained in a detention center in Texas and his two-year-old daughter is in HHS custody, according to the ACLU.

President Trump is invoking a "state secret privilege" and refusing to provide any additional information to the D.C. District Court judge involved in the high-profile Venezuelan migrant deportation case.

Citing the Alien Enemies Act, an 18th-century wartime law, the Trump administration recently deported hundreds of reported Venezuelan gang members to El Salvador. As planes were in the middle of the trip, a federal judge ruled against the move, yet the administration continued the deportations, setting up this latest showdown.

Abstract legal and procedural questions don’t move public sentiment. Stories of individuals do. 

What did more to turn American voters so sharply against the postpandemic wave of immigration, crime statistics or the murder of Georgia nursing student Laken Riley? 

A 23-year-old makeup artist with no known gang affiliation was among the hundreds of Venezuelan men deported to El Salvador’s infamous CECOT prison without due process last week.

Lindsay Toczylowski, co-founder and president of the Immigrant Defenders Law Center, painted a harrowing picture while recounting how her client was “disappeared” during an appearance on “The Rachel Maddow Show” on Thursday.

Immigration attorneys say a gay Venezuelan makeup artist seeking asylum in the U.S. was wrongly identified as a gang member and deported to El Salvador—a case becoming a flashpoint in the debate over the Trump administration’s deportation of hundreds of migrants to a notoriously inhumane El Salvador megaprison.

A makeup artist seeking asylum in the US after fleeing Venezuela claims he was wrongly identified as a gang member and sent to a hellhole prison in El Salvador.

Andrys Cedeno-Gil, 31, crossed the border into California from Tijuana last year to escape persecution for his homosexuality, his lawyers said.

He waited months in detention for an immigration court hearing on March 13, but instead was put one of three planes with 237 other migrants and deported.

President Donald Trump on Monday announced that Venezuela will face a “secondary tariff” come April 2, alleging that the nation purposefully sent criminals to the U.S., which earned it the levy.

In a Truth Social post, Trump said the U.S. would impose a 25% tariff on any country that buys oil or gas from Venezuela.

Other reciprocal tariffs are set to begin that same day, including levies against Mexico, Japan, South Korea, Canada, India, China, the European Union and more.

Sparks flew during a closely-watched federal appeals court hearing Monday afternoon — with a Barack Obama-appointed judge tearing into the Trump administration’s plans to mass-deport alleged members of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

A federal judge rejected the Trump administration’s bid to lift an order blocking deportations under an 18th-century law, saying that the people being removed should have a chance to challenge their designation as members of a dangerous Venezuelan gang.