A divided Supreme Court has granted a court order requiring that immigrants who have been deported have a chance to challenge the deportations. This is in response to President Donald Trump’s administration’s decision to resume swift removals of immigrants to nations other than their own.
As is typical of its emergency docket, the majority of the high court did not provide more details about its reasoning in the brief order issued on Monday. The three liberal justices disagreed in all cases.
Eight people were taken on a plane to South Sudan by immigration officials in May, but they were later detoured to a US naval base in Djibouti after a judge intervened.
In the US, the refugees and migrants from nations like Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cuba had been found guilty of violent crimes. Officials in charge of immigration have stated that they were unable to quickly bring them back to their home countries.
The Trump administration’s administration has announced a comprehensive immigration crackdown, which includes millions of people who are currently living in the US without legal status.
Liberal Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in a furious 19-page dissention that the court’s action “exposes thousands of people to the risk of torture or death.”
Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, the other two liberal judges, joined the government in writing and in deposition. “The government has made clear in word and deed that it feels free to deport anyone anywhere without notice or an opportunity to be heard,” she wrote in the dissent.
Some of the migrants’ lawyers who were on the flight to South Sudan said they would continue to fight in court. The Supreme Court’s decision will have horrifying effects, according to Trina Realmuto, executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance.
Meanwhile, Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security, stated in a social media post that the decision was a “MAJOR win for the safety and security of the Americans.”
A request for comment was sent via email, but the department did not respond right away.
District judge concerned about the danger facing deportees
The Supreme Court’s action halts a ruling from US District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Boston, who in April stated that people who have exhausted their legal appeals must have the opportunity to challenge their deportation to a third country.
He informed immigration officials that people could file those concerns through their attorneys if the May deportation flight to South Sudan violated his order. In Djibouti, immigration officials and the officers guarding them faced difficult circumstances, where they were housed in a converted shipping container.
Because some nations do not permit US deportations, the administration has reached agreements with other nations to house immigrants, including Panama and Costa Rica. In contrast, South Sudan has experienced numerous wave after wave of violence since gaining independence in 2011.
Deportations to third countries are not prohibited by Murphy’s order. However, it states that if migrants are sent to another country, they must have a real chance to argue that they could face serious torture.
The Trump administration’s criticism of judges whose decisions have slowed the president’s policies has been one of several legal hot buttons.
A gay Guatemalan man who had been wrongly deported to Mexico, where he claims he had been raped and extorted, was given a second order from Murphy, who was appointed by former Democratic President Joe Biden.
Source: Aljazeera
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