Appeals court weighs Trump’s use of wartime law to deport Venezuelans

A federal appeals court will hear oral arguments in what is likely to be a decisive lawsuit over whether President Donald Trump’s administration can use an 18th-century law to speed up deportations.
The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals is weighing whether a group of detainees at the Bluebonnet Detention Facility in Anson, Texas, can be deported under the Alien Enemies Act.