Supreme Court lets Trump resume third-country deportations
The court will hear the case in December after 1,400 removals were paused, while dissenters said the policy can expose migrants to abuse.
- On Tuesday, September 29, the U.S. Supreme Court granted the Trump administration's request to resume third-country deportations, issuing an unsigned stay of a lower-court injunction. The Court added the case to its docket and scheduled oral arguments for December.
- The administration defended the policy as an "essential tool to remove certain aliens" when home countries refuse repatriation, arguing that rapid removals require no individualized determinations of migrant safety.
- U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy previously ruled the policy violated due process by denying migrants notice or opportunity to challenge removals. Over 25,000 people have been deported to 29 countries, prompting human rights warnings about persecution risks.
- Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued the lower-court block created "substantial logistical problems," forcing cancellation of a flight carrying 70 migrants to three countries. The administration contended these disruptions strained diplomatic negotiations with receiving nations.
- The Court will hear oral arguments in December to determine whether the district court had jurisdiction and if the third-country removal guidance violates federal immigration law or the U.S. Constitution's Due Process Clause. A final ruling is expected next year.
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Deportations to third countries can resume
The Supreme Court on Tuesday let President Donald Trump's administration resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them the chance to show the harms they may face, at least for now.
The Left Conveniently Forgets Who Writes Immigration Law
The Supreme Court hasn’t green-lighted the Trump administration’s deportations of removable aliens to third countries to which the aliens have no ties. It is Congress that approved that process by enacting a controlling statute that explicitly allows it.
Supreme Court Takes Up Trump’s Third-Country Deportation Policy – The American Spectator | USA News and Politics
A deportation order is only as viable as its destination. When no country will accept the named individual, the order becomes a mere abstraction — a mandate that commands departure but lacks the power to compel entry. The Supreme Court confronted this very limitation on Tuesday, granting the Trump administration temporary authority to resume removing immigrants to third-party nations. The justices will hear full arguments in December. Critics co…
‘Third Country’ Deportations Could Transform Immigration Enforcement—and Close One of the System’s Biggest Loopholes.
The Trump Administration secured a victory in the Supreme Court this week that will allow the government to resume deporting illegal aliens whose countries, for one reason or another, refuse or are unable to take them back. Since President Donald J. Trump took office in January of 2025, over 25,000 illegal aliens have already been deported to third countries, but legal challenges paused the policy in February of this year.
The government of the President of the United States, Donald Trump, deported 25,447 people to third countries from January 20, 2025 to August 31, 2026.
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