Friday, 04 July 2025

Supreme Court Delivers HUGE Immigration Win For Trump Administration

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In a 6-3 decision, the Supreme Court ruled the Trump administration can deport illegal migrants convicted of crimes to third party countries.

The high court stayed a lower court order allowing migrants to challenge their deportation orders.

Per NBC News:

In a brief unsigned order that did not explain its reasoning, the court put on hold a federal judge’s ruling that said those affected nationwide should have a “meaningful opportunity” to bring claims that they would be at risk of torture, persecution or death if they were sent to countries the administration has made deals with to receive deported immigrants.

As a result, the administration will be able to try to quickly remove immigrants to such third countries, including South Sudan. Affected immigrants can still attempt to bring individual claims.

“The ramifications of the Supreme Court’s order will be horrifying; it strips away critical due process protections that have been protecting our class members from torture and death,” said Trina Realmuto, executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, one of the groups that brought the legal challenge.

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The three liberal justices on the conservative-majority court all dissented.

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a dissenting opinion that the court had stepped in “to grant the government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied.”

She said the court was “rewarding lawlessness” by allowing the Trump administration to violate immigrants’ due process rights.

The fact that “thousands will suffer violence in far-flung locales” is less important to the conservative majority than the “remote possibility” that the judge had exceeded his authority, Sotomayor said.

“Illegal aliens pretend they’re persecuted back in their home countries. So the Trump administration sends them to another country. Adios. An activist judge tried to block this. The Supreme Court just sided with the Trump administration. Again, adios,” attorney Mike Davis commented.

CBS News reports:

The Supreme Court’s latest order came in a court fight over the Trump administration’s efforts to swiftly deport some migrants to third countries, or countries other than the ones designated on an order of removal. As part of Mr. Trump’s immigration agenda and plans for mass deportations, his administration has approached nations like Costa Rica, Panama and Rwanda about accepting migrants who are not their citizens.

The administration has also already entered into an arrangement with the government of El Salvador to detain Venezuelan migrants who it claims are gang members, though a “60 Minutes” investigation found most have no apparent criminal records. The migrants have been confined at the notorious Salvadoran prison known as CECOT, often under a 1798 wartime law.

The Supreme Court previously said in a pair of decisions arising from other emergency appeals that migrants facing deportation under that wartime law must receive notice and an opportunity to challenge their removals in court.

Four migrants from Latin America filed a broader lawsuit in March on behalf of a nationwide class of all people potentially subject to third-country removals and argued they are entitled to notice and an opportunity to contest their removals on the grounds they fear persecution, torture and death.

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In the weeks after the suit was filed, administration officials were engaged in a simmering showdown with a Boston-based federal judge, who in April found that the government had violated migrants’ due process rights and blocked immigration authorities from quickly removing them to third countries unless certain steps are first taken.

The judge, Brian Murphy, said the government first had to give the affected migrants written notice of the third country to which they may be deported and a “meaningful opportunity” to raise fears of torture, persecution or death in that country.


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