Supreme Court allows Trump to restart deportations to non-origin countries
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The Supreme Court on June 20, 2024, in Washington, DC. Photo: Andrew Harnik/Getty Images
The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to resume deportations of migrants to countries that were not their place of origin.
The big picture: The decision puts on hold a court order that required adequate time for immigrants to be allowed to challenge their deportations.
Driving the news: The Supreme Court didn't provide a detailed explanation in its unsigned order Monday, as is usually the case on the emergency docket.
- The court's three liberal judges, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, dissented.
- "In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution," the three justices wrote. "In this case, the Government took the opposite approach."
Catch up quick: The Trump administration last month asked the Supreme Court to overturn a federal judge's order that blocked the government from sending undocumented immigrants to countries that were not their prior places of residence.
- U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy had determined that the administration "unquestionably" violated his ruling by swiftly deporting a group of immigrants to South Sudan.
- The judge had ruled that sending undocumented immigrants to countries they're not citizens of would "clearly violate" an earlier order against sending people to third countries.
- Murphy had found that the government did not give enough time for eight immigrants from various nationalities to contest their removal before they were put on a plane to South Sudan, ruling that the government's actions "were unquestionably in violation" of the court's order."
What they're saying: "The ramifications of Supreme Court's order will be horrifying," Trina Realmuto, an attorney representing the migrants, said in a statement Monday.
- "It strips away critical due process protections that have been protecting our class members from torture and death," Realmuto, executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, added.
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