The Trump administration asked the justices to allow it to use a wartime law to continue deportations of Venezuelans with little or no due process.

The Trump administration is asking the Supreme Court for permission to resume deportations of Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador under an 18th century wartime law, while a court fight continues.

Donald Trump asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Friday to allow his use of a 1798 law to swiftly deport alleged Venezuelan gang members as his administration sought to undo a judicial block on this element of the Republican president's hardline approach toward immigration.