The United States Supreme Court has granted a request from President Donald Trump’s administration to continue third-country deportations, effectively halting a lower-court ruling that paused such removals due to concerns about due process. The court ordered emergency action, allowing the administration’s petition to resume the deportations, which involve sending immigrants to countries they may have no connection to. The lower court ruling paused deportations arguing that immigrants needed a “meaningful” chance to challenge removal proceedings, and the court’s three justices, Sonia Sotomayor, Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Elena Kagan, indicated they would have denied the petition. The deportation process has been ongoing since the Supreme Court issued an unsigned order in June 2025, allowing such removals to proceed. This decision follows a precedent where the Supreme Court previously allowed similar removals, with the US subsequently using this practice to deport people to countries that the US State Department advises against visiting, including Cuban, Burmese, and Vietnamese nationals to South Sudan.
Source: Al Jazeera
