美国公民自由联盟的首席律师向美国广播公司新闻描述了法律行动的快速步伐，这导致最高法院周六凌晨做出特别裁决，阻止特朗普政府将委内瑞拉人驱逐到萨尔瓦多的一所监狱。
李·格莱特说，美国公民自由联盟周四晚上开始了解到，移民最早可能在当天晚上从得克萨斯州的一个拘留中心转移，所以他们在半夜提出申请。
“我们只是不断推动，最终在多个法院提起诉讼，最终最高法院在周五晚上1点，周六凌晨，停止了移除，”格勒恩特在接受美国广播公司新闻采访时说。"但是有很长一段时间情况都很危险."
美国公民自由联盟表示，关押在德克萨斯州拘留中心的移民收到了通知，并被告知他们将在12至24小时内被转移。
“根据《外国敌人法》，你已被确定为外国敌人，将被逮捕、限制和驱逐出美国，”该通知写道，该通知由美国公民自由联盟提交给法院。
这份文件是用英语写的，说移民可以打电话，尽管它确实说通知将用他们理解的语言读给个人听。它不包括任何质疑该命令的方法。
“政府只提供12至24小时的英语通知，没有解释人们有权竞争，也没有告诉他们如何做或他们必须做多少时间，”Gelernt说。"毫无疑问，这些通知程序符合最高法院的指令."
被拘留在拘留中心的一名移民的女朋友告诉ABC新闻，他收到了一份文件，似乎与美国公民自由联盟在法庭上提交的文件相同。她说他告诉她这很难理解。
她补充说，他说他和一群被拘留者周五被带到该设施附近的机场，他们即将被驱逐出境。然后，他告诉她，当他们到达时，一名官员告诉他们，他们将被送回中心，不会登机。
Gelernt说，风险不可能更高了，Kilmar阿布雷戈加西亚-居住在马里兰州的萨尔瓦多人，今年3月被驱逐到他祖国的一个大型监狱-不是唯一一个被“错误地”送到萨尔瓦多臭名昭著的CECOT大型监狱的人。
“他们单方面声称人们是帮派成员，但不给他们机会去法庭证明他们不是。我们知道，很多很多人被错误地认定为这个团伙的成员，但是一旦他们进入萨尔瓦多监狱，他们可能一辈子都不会出来了。
“在我们采取如此特殊的行动之前，给他们听证机会是至关重要的，”他补充道。
Inside the ACLU's race to stop Venezuelans' deportation to Salvadoran prison
The American Civil Liberties Union’s lead attorney described to ABC News the rapid pace of legal action that led to the extraordinary ruling from the Supreme Court early Saturday morning that blocks the Trump administration from deporting Venezuelans to a prison in El Salvador.
Lee Gelernt said the ACLU began to learn Thursday night that the migrants could be moved from a detention center in Texas as early as that night, so they filed in the middle of the night.
“We just kept pushing and ended up filing in multiple courts, and ultimately the Supreme Court, at 1 a.m. on Friday night, early Saturday morning, stopped the removals,” Gelernt said in an interview with ABC News. “But it was touch and go for a long time.”
The ACLU says migrants held in the Texas detention center received a notice and were told they’d be removed in 12 to 24 hours.
“Under the Alien Enemies Act, you have been determined to be an alien enemy subject to apprehension, restraint and removal from the United States,” the notice reads, which was filed in court by the ACLU.
The document is written in English and says migrants can make a phone call, although it does say the notice will be read to the individual in a language they understand. It did not include any method to contest the order.
“The government is providing only 12 to 24 hours with a notice that was served in English that does not explain that people have the right to contest, nor tell them how to do it or how much time they have to do it,” Gelernt said. “There is no argument whatsoever that these notice procedures comply with the Supreme Court's directive.”
The girlfriend of one of the migrants held in the detention center told ABC News he received a document that appeared to be the same one that the ACLU filed in court. She says he told her it was hard to understand.
She added that he said he and a group of detainees were taken to an airport near the facility on Friday and they were about to be deported. Then, he told her, once they arrived, an officer informed the group they were being sent back to the center and would not board the plane.
Gelernt said the stakes couldn’t be any higher and that Kilmar Abrego Garcia -- the Salvadoran native living Maryland who was deported in March to a mega-prison in his home country -- isn’t the only person who was “erroneously” sent to the notorious CECOT mega-prison in El Salvador.
“They're unilaterally claiming that people are members of a gang, but not giving them the opportunity to go into court and show they're not. And we know that multiple, multiple people have been erroneously tagged as members of this gang, but once they get to the El Salvadoran prison, they may never get out for the rest of their life,” Gelernt said.
“It's critical that we give them hearings before we take such an extraordinary action," he added.
