The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order preventing officials from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan men held at an immigration detention center in Texas.

The Trump administration sent them to a prison in El Salvador under a wartime act, calling them members of a Venezuelan gang. But a New York Times investigation found little evidence of criminal backgrounds or links to the gang.

By Luc Cohen and Kristina Cooke (Reuters) -Lawyers for Venezuelan men detained in Texas asked a U.S. appeals court on Friday to block what the lawyers said were the men's imminent deportation by the Trump administration without the judicial review required by the Supreme Court.