The Supreme Court on Saturday blocked, for now, the deportations of any Venezuelans held in northern Texas under an 18th century wartime law.

A federal judge in West Texas has joined others in temporarily blocking the deportations of Venezuelan immigrants under the 18th-century Alien Enemies Act. U.S. District Judge David Briones of El Paso issued the order Friday, directing the release of a couple accused of belonging to a Venezuelan criminal gang, the Associated Press reported.

The document stated that Cárdenas was going to be deported under the Alien Enemies Act, a rarely invoked law from 1798 that the Trump administration has been using to deprive Venezuelans it accuses of gang membership of due process.