A federal judge in Washington, DC, told lawyers for migrants in Texas who believed the Trump administration is about to swiftly deport them under the Alien Enemies Act that he did not have the power to pause the deportations,

The American Civil Liberties Union asked a federal judge to issue a temporary restraining order preventing officials from using the Alien Enemies Act to deport Venezuelan men held at an immigration detention center in Texas.

Attorneys for Venezuelan immigrants told federal courts that deportations might begin as soon as Friday night, and that some may have already been “loaded on to buses.”