Bishops’ Legal Group Hails Supreme Court’s Pause on Alien Enemies Act Deportations

Catholic immigration advocates welcomed an order from the U.S. Supreme Court temporarily barring the Trump administration from continuing to deport some migrants accused of gang membership under a wartime powers law.

“We welcome the Supreme Court’s decision to temporarily halt removals under the Alien Enemies Act,” Anna Gallagher, executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network, also known as CLINIC, said in written comments shared with OSV News.

“This pause is a necessary check on the administration’s dangerous misuse of a wartime law to bypass due process,” she said.

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