Massive win for Trump as Supreme Court rules he can deport illegal migrants using historic wartime act | 7 April 2025 | President Donald Trump scored a huge win in his efforts to deport migrants living in the United States illegally with a major Supreme Court ruling on Monday. The country's highest court, in an unsigned 5 - 4 ruling, ruled that the Trump administration can invoke the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport alleged Venezuelan gang members. Trump had declared that members of the Tren de Aragua gang were terrorists, and his border czar Tom Homan spectacularly rounded up suspected gangsters across the United States last month to send them back to "hell hole" prisons in Venezuela. But the president's efforts were halted on March 15 when Obama-appointed US District Court Judge James Boasberg issued an injunction blocking the deportations. That injunction has now been lifted under the Supreme Court's ruling -- allowing the president to once again send suspected gang members to their home countries.