The Supreme Court on Monday cleared the way for the Trump administration to swiftly deport foreigners to countries where they have no previous ties.
The justices lifted an order from a federal judge in Boston who had placed restrictions on the deportations to those countries. U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy had issued a nationwide injunction that required the administration to give immigrants “meaningful” advance notice and a chance to raise objections before they are sent to so-called third countries — nations not specified in their original deportation orders. But the Supreme Court granted the Trump administration’s emergency request to put Murphy’s injunction on hold.
“Fire up the deportation planes,” Tricia McLaughlin, a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security, said in a statement celebrating the ruling.
The high court’s majority offered no explanation for its ruling, but all three of the court’s liberal justices dissented. Writing for the liberals, Justice Sonia Sotomayor called the ruling an “abuse” of the court’s power that amounted to “rewarding lawlessness” on the part of the administration. And lawyers for the immigrants who had relied on protection from the courts said the ruling would make them “vulnerable to torture or death” in dangerous countries.
The high court’s action grants officials added flexibility to carry out President Donald Trump’s mass deportation plans, particularly in cases involving countries that resist taking back their own citizens when they are ordered deported from the U.S. The justices’ ruling came in a case that produced explosive controversies over the Trump administration’s attempts to deport some immigrants with criminal records to Libya and South Sudan.
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