WASHINGTON - A federal judge in Washington, D.C., has ordered the Trump administration to provide a legal process for migrants deported to El Salvador under the Alien Enemies Act of 1798, complicating one of the White House’s most aggressive immigration strategies.

Chief U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ruled Wednesday that more than 100 deportees being held in El Salvador’s Terrorism Confinement Center must be given a way to challenge both their deportations and accusations that they are part of the Venezuelan gang Tren de Aragua.

The ruling follows months of legal fights over the administration’s controversial use of wartime powers to bypass standard immigration procedures—and may now force the government to rethink how it applies that law.

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