President Donald Trump Friday petitioned the U.S. Supreme Court to vacate an order barring his administration from using the Alien Enemies Act of 1798 to deport Venezuelan migrants to a prison in El Salvador.

The petition requests an “immediate administrative stay” and was filed under the name of Trump in his official capacity as president and the administration.

The move comes after a split three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit Thursday refused to lift a March 15 order from the panel’s chief judge, James Boasberg, to temporarily prohibit deportations under the 18th-century wartime act.

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