Supreme Court allows Trump to resume deporting people to third countries for now while justices weigh policy. The court granted the DOJ’s request to halt a Boston-based US district judge’s ruling that the Department of Homeland Security’s policy to remove migrants to so-called third countries is unlawful.
The justices previously allowed the deportation flights, a core Trump administration policy, to temporarily continue when the case came before them last year. The court also agreed to hear arguments in the dispute in December, with a formal ruling on policy to follow. The three liberal justices dissented from the decision.
Federal attorneys said the lower-court decision forced the cancellation of a deportation flight carrying about 70 people bound for three countries. The administration has also carried out third-country deportations to politically unstable South Sudan, which the US state department urges Americans to avoid due to the risks of crime, kidnapping and armed conflict, as well as Uganda, Equatorial Guinea, Liberia, the Central African Republic, and other nations.