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Trump’s wartime-law deportation push instantly ran into the Constitution
Trump’s invocation of the Alien Enemies Act set off a fast-moving legal fight over deportations of Venezuelans, with judges and lawyers immediately zeroing in on due process and the limits of wartime authority. By March 16, the administration’s effort to move people out under an 18th-century statute was already drawing claims that the White House had pushed ahead before the courts could review the legality of the program.