U.S. Supreme Court says Trump can continue deportations to 3rd countries — for now

The US Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to continue deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show the harms they may face. This decision temporarily lifts a lower court order that required immigration authorities to give deportees more due process before removing them to so-called third countries.

According to CBS News, the lower courts had ruled that migrants are entitled to notice and the opportunity to challenge their removals before immigration officers attempt to send them to countries that are not their own. However, the Trump administration argued that these decisions have prevented the Department of Homeland Security from efficiently removing aliens, including those with criminal records.

The Supreme Court's decision, with a six-justice conservative majority, allows the Trump administration to continue relying on a policy that permits officials to send deportees to third countries without notifying them of the destination, if the destination country provides blanket assurances that they will not persecute or torture the deported migrants. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the ruling, according to CBS News.

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