The US Supreme Court has given the Trump administration permission to start deporting migrants to nations other than their home countries once again. The justices overturned a lower court ruling that mandated the government provide migrants with a “meaningful opportunity” to inform officials of the hazards associated with their deportation to a third nation by a vote of 6-3.
Dissenting from the majority decision, the court’s three liberal justices said that it was “rewarding lawlessness.” In the case, eight migrants from Cuba, Mexico, Laos, Vietnam, Myanmar, and South Sudan were deported in May on an aircraft that was allegedly bound for South Sudan. They are “the worst of the worst,” according to the Trump administration.
The deportation violated an order made in April by US District Judge Brian Murphy of Boston, who held that migrants must be given the opportunity to argue that they may be tortured or killed if they were sent to third countries, even if their earlier legal arguments had already been denied.
Ketanji Brown Jackson, Elena Kagan, and Sonia Sotomayor attacked the majority’s unsigned ruling on Monday, describing it as a “gross abuse. According to Sotomayor, “the court seems to find it more acceptable that thousands of people will endure violence in remote locations than the remote possibility that a district court overreached its remedial powers when it ordered the government to provide notice and process to which the plaintiffs are entitled by statute and the constitution.
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