A federal appeals court has lifted an emergency stay that prevented a district court judge from issuing further rulings on a case involving the due process rights of immigrants who were deported by the Trump administration, the Washington Examiner reported.

U.S. District Judge James Boasberg earlier this year ordered the Trump administration to “facilitate” due process protections for Venezuelans deported to El Salvador, where they have been imprisoned in the country’s Terrorism Confinement Center. That injunction was stayed by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit in June, but that same court lifted that stay earlier this month in a ruling that goes into effect this week.

In their ruling the judges noted that a recent prisoner swap between El Salvador and Venezuela altered the circumstances that led to the original stay, which was ordered in response to an appeal by the Trump administration.

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