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Karen Read listens to the testimony of Cellebrite digital intelligence expert Ian Wiffin, during her murder retrial, in Norfolk Superior Court, in front of Judge Beverly J. Cannone, in Dedham, Mass., Monday April 28, 2025. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

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Judge Beverly J. Cannone greets jurors as the murder retrial of Karen Read continues, in Norfolk Superior Court, Dedham, Mass., Monday April 28, 2025. (Pat Greenhouse/The Boston Globe via AP, Pool)

A federal judge in west Texas has joined other courts in temporarily blocking the deportations of Venezuelan immigrants under an 18th-century wartime law known as the Alien Enemies Act. The ruling Friday came as U.S. District Judge David Briones in El Paso ordered the release of a couple accused of being members of a Venezuelan criminal gang. The Trump administration has designated the gang as a foreign terrorist organization. Trump has invoked the act that lets the president deport noncitizens 14 years or older who are from a country with which the U.S. is at war. Judges in south Texas, Colorado and New York have previously blocked such deportations.