Supreme Court Lets Trump Resume Third-Country Deportations

The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to restart removals of unauthorized immigrants to countries other than their own, at least for the time being. The move, issued Tuesday in an order with no listed author, suspends a lower-court decision that had halted the practice, and it strengthens the president's broader effort to carry out mass deportations, according to Daily Wire.

The order appears to reflect a 6-3 split among the justices. Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson are the three who registered disagreement. Beyond lifting the block, the justices also agreed to take up the underlying dispute themselves. Oral arguments are set for December, and a final ruling is anticipated by next summer, so the pause on the lower court's decision is only a temporary stage in a longer legal fight.

According to the Associated Press, the government has already used this approach to send about 25,000 migrants to more than two dozen nations. Liberia and Guyana are among the destinations named. Mexico, however, has taken in the great majority of those removed under the program.

The outcome matters because it lets the administration keep operating a central piece of its immigration enforcement while the case proceeds toward a full hearing. Opponents of the policy prevailed in the lower court, but that victory is now on hold until the justices weigh in with a definitive judgment on whether the practice may continue.

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