The US Supreme Court has permitted President Donald Trump’s administration to start deporting migrants to nations other than their country of origin. The justices overturned a lower court judgement mandating that the government provide migrants with a “meaningful opportunity” to inform officials of the hazards of deporting them to a third nation by a vote of 6-3.
The three liberal justices on the court disagreed with the majority decision, arguing that it constituted “rewarding lawlessness. Eight migrants from South Sudan, Cuba, Mexico, Laos, Vietnam, and Myanmar are at issue in this case. They were deported in May on an aircraft that was allegedly bound for South Sudan. They were described as “the worst of the worst” by the Trump administration.
US District Judge Brian Murphy, who is headquartered in Boston, said that the removals violated an order he made in April stating that migrants must be given the opportunity to argue that they may be killed or tortured if they are sent to third countries, even if their earlier legal arguments have already been denied. Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson attacked the majority’s unsigned ruling on Monday, describing it as a “gross abuse.
It appears that the court prefers the prospect of thousands of people experiencing violence in remote areas to the remote possibility that a district court overreached its remedial authority when it directed the government to give the plaintiffs the notice and process to which they are legally and constitutionally entitled,” Sotomayor wrote.
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