This is the second time in a week that a federal judge has blocked the administration from sending Venezuelans to the Salvadoran prison under the 18th-century wartime law.

A federal judge on Tuesday extended her order barring the government from removing non-citizens accused of being "alien enemies" from Colorado, concluding the authority invoked by the Trump administration is likely unlawful.

Judges around the country have been rejecting President Donald Trump’s Alien Enemies Act invocation. But in the latest ruling on the subject, a judge approved Trump’s bid to use the act to deport Venezuelan citizens who are members of Tren de Aragua — though she said the government must provide more notice under the act.