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Supreme Court Lifts Injunction on Removal of Noncitizens to Third Countries

By immigrationprof

NPR reports that the U.S. Supreme Court yesterday blocked a lower court order that required 15 days’ notice to people the Trump administration is trying to deport to countries other than where they are from. A federal judge had enjoined the practice, stating that deportees were being denied due process. With the Supreme Court reversing that decision, those deportations have been enabled to continue.  Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.

“Apparently, the Court finds the idea that thousands will suffer violence in farflung locales more palatable than the remote possibility that a District Court exceeded its powers when it ordered the government provide notice to the targeted migrants,” Sotomayor wrote in a 19-page dissent, joined by Kagan and Brown Jackson.

This piece by Eleanor Paynter in The Conversation offers background on the case. 

According to NPR, immigrant rights advocates have called the ruling disastrous, saying that thousands of migrants could be sent to countries where they might be at risk of torture or inhumane treatment. The Department of Homeland Security called yesterday’s order from the Supreme Court a victory for public safety and national security.
 
This is not the final word on the legal dispute. The underlying issue of what is adequate due process for deportees is pending in a federal appeals court. 
 
KJ

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