A judge in California handed the Trump administration yet another immigration loss in federal court on Monday, blocking it from deporting another Venezuelan migrant under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 (AEA), but with a catch, the judge said.

Darwin Antonio Arevalo Millan, a Venezuelan citizen who is currently being held at an Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) facility in Adelanto, California, is allowed to remain in the United States on account of authorities violating his due process rights, according to U.S. District Judge John Holcomb, a Trump appointee. Despite the ruling, Holcomb did say Millan’s attempted deportation under the AEA — an 18th-century wartime authority last used during World War II to justify the internment of Japanese Americans living in the U.S. — was not, in

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