The Supreme Court has rejected the Trump administration’s appeal to quickly resume deportations of Venezuelans under an 18th-century wartime law.

Venezuelan men held in Texas had urged the court to prevent the government from sending them to a prison in El Salvador before they could challenge the move in court.

The US Supreme Court blocked the Trump administration from using a wartime law to send a group of Venezuelans to a notorious Salvadoran prison, faulting the government for not giving the men adequate notice about its deportation plans.