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A Venezuelan man who was deported from the U.S. and detained in the infamous CECOT prison in El Salvador last year has become the first known ex-prisoner to sue the U.S. for damages. He filed a lawsuit in federal court on Tuesday seeking at least $1.3 million in compensation.

The Trump administration has spent more than $30 million to send migrants to far-flung countries that are not their own, including, in a few instances, paying over $1 million a person, a new report from the Democratic chair of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee says.

The entire basis for Trump invoking the Alien Enemies Act is probably false, according to an assessment from the National Intelligence Council.

"The Constitution clearly states—the ultimate law of the country—that the right to a writ of habeas corpus can be suspended during an invasion," Miller said

A fresh lawsuit seeks to dampen Trump's utilization of a significant wartime measure

Conservatives criticized the justice appointed by Trump after she opposed his application of the Alien Enemies Act, with some even targeting her children

“At the very least, when the Court diverged in previous times, it documented its actions so future generations could understand its mistakes,” the justice wrote

The case has become a flashpoint amid escalating tension between the White House and the federal courts.

The Trump administration asserts it possesses extensive authority to label individuals in the U.S. as terrorists and transfer them to overseas prisons—without any hearings or proof

Due process is missing in action under the Trump administration, one judge suggested.

Less than a week after asserting that his predecessor Joe Biden utilized an autopen, Trump is now backing away from his statement

Soccer player Jerce Reyes Barrios escaped Venezuela — but he is now believed to be one of several migrants held in a notorious prison in El Salvador

The judge stated that the administration was prohibited from relocating Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador, yet the administration argues that his verbal orders were not "binding."

A remarkable legal battle unfolded regarding Trump's use of an 18th-century wartime act to send hundreds of immigrants to a prison in El Salvador

“Apparently my oral orders don’t seem to carry much weight,” D.C.’s top district judge told the Trump administration Monday as they sparred over recent deportation flights.

On Saturday evening, Judge James Boasberg of the U.S. District Court stopped Trump's application of the long-established wartime authority, directing that five men be brought back to the United States

President Donald Trump has, for the first time since World War II, utilized the Alien Enemies Act, giving himself extensive authority