Supreme Court Hands Trump Admin Victory On Efforts To Deport ‘Worst’ Illegal Migrants
The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration to more quickly deport illegal migrants to countries not specified in their removal orders.
A majority temporarily blocked a lower court order that required the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to give migrants notice and allow them to raise concerns about potential threats of torture before deporting them to a “third country.”
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson and Elena Kagan dissented from the decision.
“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 remedial powers when it ordered the Government to provide notice and process to which the plaintiffs are constitutionally and statutorily entitled,” Sotomayor wrote. “That use of discretion is as incomprehensible as it is inexcusable.”
The Trump administration argued the order interfered with their ability to deport “some of the worst of the worst illegal aliens” in its emergency application. (Read more from “Supreme Court Hands Trump Admin Victory On Efforts To Deport ‘Worst’ Illegal Migrants” HERE)
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