The high court action is the latest in a string of judicial setbacks for the Trump administration’s effort to speed deportations of people in the country illegally.

Supreme Court faults Texas judges and Trump lawyers for seeking deportation before detained men could be heard.

The U.S. Supreme Court on Friday kept in place its block on President Donald Trump's deportations of Venezuelan migrants under a 1798 law historically used only in wartime after their lawyers said the government was set to remove the men without judicial review in violation of a prior order by the justices.