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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 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 decision hands the Republican president another victory in his pursuit of mass deportations. | |
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. | |
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." |