Supreme Court rules on Trump's third-country deportations, in major test for president
The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Trump administration's request to stay a lower court injunction blocking them from deporting individuals to third countries without prior notice voting - to allow the administration to proceed At issue was a group of refugees challenging their removals to third countries or countries that were not their country of origin Lawyers for a group of immigrants in the U S had urged the Supreme Court earlier this month to leave in place a ruling from U S District Judge Brian Murphy who previously ordered the Trump administration to keep in U S custody all foreigners slated for deportation to a country not explicitly named in their removal orders known as a third-country deportation Murphy a federal judge in Boston presided over a class-action lawsuit from newcomers who are challenging deportations to third countries including South Sudan El Salvador and other countries including Costa Rica Guatemala and others that the administration has reportedly eyed in its ongoing wave of deportations SUPREME COURT ALLOWS TRUMP ADMIN TO MOVE ON ENDING LEGAL PROTECTIONS FOR CERTAIN VENEZUELAN MIGRANTSMurphy ruled that settlers must remain in U S custody until they can have the opportunity to conduct a reasonable fear interview or the chance to explain to U S administrators any fear of persecution or torture should they be distributed into the country Murphy stressed his order does not bar Trump from executing removal orders to third countries Instead he emphasized in an earlier order it solely requires the authorities to comply with the law when carrying out such removals under the U S Constitution and the Trump administration's wave of eleventh-hour removals and deportations In appealing the event to the Supreme Court U S Solicitor General D John Sauer argued that Judge Murphy's ruling had blocked them from removing various of the worst of the worst illegal aliens including a class of displaced persons sent to South Sudan earlier this year without due process or notice He reiterated in a separate order that the movers remain in U S custody at a military base in Djibouti until each of them could be given a reasonable fear interview or a chance to explain to U S administrators any fear of persecution or torture should they be disclosed into South Sudanese custody US JUDGE ACCUSES TRUMP ADMIN OF MANUFACTURING CHAOS IN SOUTH SUDAN DEPORTATIONS ESCALATING FEUDThe Supreme Court update comes after a flurry of lower court challenges aimed at blocking Trump s immigration crackdown in his second White House term U S judges have repeatedly ruled that the Trump administration has violated due process by failing to notify the settlers of their imminent removals or afford them any opportunity to challenge their deportations in court a view reiterated albeit narrowly by the Supreme Court four separate times since Trump took office White House personnel meanwhile have blasted so-called activist judges as attempting to enact a political agenda and have repeatedly rejected the notion that illegal immigrants are not entitled to due process This is a developing news story Check back for updates
