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,

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.”

The Trump administration was planning to deport at least 30 Venezuelan men under a rarely invoked wartime statute before the court ruled to temporarily halt it.