Many of the Venezuelan immigrants who have been removed under the Alien Enemies Act have been sent to a prison in El Salvador known as the Centro de Confinamiento del Terrorismo, or CECOT. Grove said it is unclear whether that was the plan for the folks represented in this case, too.

President Donald Trump's administration was prepared to carry out deportations of dozens of Venezuelan migrants detained in Texas under a 1798 law historically used only during wartime without judicial review and contrary to the U.