US Supreme Court lifts limits on third-country deportations

The US Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them the chance to show the harms they may face. This policy, which has been used for rapid expulsions as part of the immigration crackdown, was temporarily blocked by a lower court. 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.

The Supreme Court's decision paves the way for the administration to continue relying on a policy that allows 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. The Hill reported that some justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson, would have denied the government's request for emergency relief.

The Trump administration has defended this policy as necessary for efficiently removing aliens, including those with criminal records, and has argued that lower court decisions have hindered this process. The administration can now continue deporting migrants to third countries without prior notice, as per a policy from March 2025, as reported by ABC News and CBC News.

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