Supreme Court Clears Way for Trump to Deport Migrants to Third-Party Countries

The high court’s Monday ruling lifts a federal judge’s decision from late March that temporarily halted the program.

The U.S. Supreme Court building
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In a ruling Monday evening split down ideological lines, the Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport migrants to countries other than where they came from.

The Supreme Court didn’t explain its reasoning in Monday’s emergency docket, as is usual.

Since taking off Donald Trump’s administration has deported migrants to Panama, Costa Rica and prisons in El Salvador. Most recently in May Immigrants and Customers Enforcement deported eight people to South Sudan without a hearing to determine their safety.