The ruling extends a temporary restraining order for three Venezuelan migrants detained in South Texas who are facing deportation.

Two Venezuelans in New York and three in Texas must undergo deportation hearings before being deported, federal judges ruled on Wednesday.

Judges in Texas and New York have temporarily barred the U.S. government from deporting Venezuelans jailed in parts of those two states while their lawyers challenge the Trump administration’s use of a rarely invoked law letting presidents imprison and deport noncitizens in times of war.

The New York Times reports that the Trump administration is looking to strip migrants of Social Security numbers to pressure self-deportation

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit sided with the government to block a lower-court ruling that had led to the reinstatement of thousands of federal workers.

The Trump administration was blocked from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport more alleged Venezuelan gang members

U.S. judges in Texas and New York dealt blows on Wednesday to President Donald Trump's effort to revive deportations of alleged Venezuelan gang members under a wartime law after the U.S. Supreme Court struck down a nationwide ban on such removals.

"The Government is likely to succeed in showing the district court lacked jurisdiction over Plaintiffs’ claims," the 2-1 r uling by the 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals said, staying an order last month that the workers be rehired.

Chief Justice John Roberts on Wednesday allowed President Donald Trump to temporarily remove two board members at independent labor agencies while the justices consider whether the president may permanently fire them.