April 18 (Reuters) - Two Venezuelan men detained in Texas were told by a U.S. official that they will be deported imminently under an 18th century American wartime law, lawyers for some Venezuelan migrants told a U.S. federal court on Friday.

In a court filing, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union asked U.S. District Judge James Hendrix in Abilene, Texas, to block any such deportations.