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US Supreme Court allows Trump to resume deportations to third countries US Supreme Court allows Trump to resume deportations to third countries
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The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump's administration to resume deportations of migrants to countries other than their homeland.The US Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump's administration to resume deportations of migrants to countries other than their homeland.
By a majority of 6-3, the justices reversed a lower court order requiring the government to give migrants a "meaningful opportunity" to tell officials what risks they might face in being deported to a third country.By a majority of 6-3, the justices reversed a lower court order requiring the government to give migrants a "meaningful opportunity" to tell officials what risks they might face in being deported to a third country.
The Supreme Court's three liberal justices - Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson - issued a scathing dissent from the ruling. The Supreme Court's three liberal justices issued a scathing dissent from the ruling in the case of eight migrants, convicted of serious crimes in the US, who were removed on a plane bound for South Sudan in May.
The ruling hands the Republican president another victory in his pursuit of mass deportations. The decision hands the Republican president another victory in his pursuit of mass deportations.
This breaking news story is being updated and more details will be published shortly. Please refresh the page for the fullest version. The case involves a group of migrants from Myanmar, South Sudan, Cuba, Mexico, Laos and Vietnam, who were deported by the Trump administration two months ago on a plane heading for South Sudan.
You can receive Breaking News on a smartphone or tablet via the BBC News App. You can also follow @BBCBreaking on X to get the latest alerts. Boston-based US District Judge Brian Murphy issued an order that the migrants must be allowed to challenge their removal to third countries.
Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson criticised the majority's decision on Monday, calling it "gross abuse".
"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."