The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump a major legal victory on Monday, ruling in favor of his administration’s ability to deport illegal aliens to nations other than their home countries.
The move greenlights the Trump administration to rapidly deport illegals without being delayed by court-imposed “due process” requirements.
In a 6-3 decision, the high court lifted a lower-court injunction that had previously blocked the Trump administration from executing such deportations.
The unsigned ruling did not include a written explanation, but it granted the administration’s emergency request to proceed, overriding a prior order from U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy.
According to Politico, the decision puts Murphy’s ruling on hold, allowing deportations to third countries to resume immediately.
Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the decision.
In a pointed opinion, Sotomayor accused the majority of enabling government overreach and claimed the move places migrants in danger:
“By rewarding lawlessness, the Court once again undermines that foundational principle,” Justice Sotomayor wrote.
“Apparently, the Court finds the idea that thousands will suffer violence in far-flung locales more palatable than the remote possibility that a District Court exceeded its remedial powers when it ordered the Government to provide notice and process to which the plaintiffs are constitutionally and statutorily entitled.”
The legal battle stemmed from a ruling by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy.
Murphy argued in April that the Trump administration could not deport illegal aliens to countries not listed in their official “order of removal” without first giving them an opportunity to raise safety concerns.
In his ruling, Murphy wrote:
“Defendants argue that the United States may send a deportable alien to a country not of their origin, not where an immigration judge has ordered, where they may be immediately tortured and killed, without providing that person any opportunity to tell the deporting authorities that they face grave danger or death because of such a deportation.”
Murphy’s injunction effectively froze deportations that deviated from initial court-designated destinations until the Supreme Court’s Monday ruling.
Left-wing immigration advocacy groups were quick to decry the Supreme Court’s decision.
Trina Realmuto, executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, blasted the ruling in comments to NBC News.
“The ramifications of the Supreme Court’s order will be horrifying,” Realmuto warned.
“It strips away critical due process protections that have been protecting our class members from torture and death.”
The ruling allows the U.S. government, under the Trump administration’s policies, to deport illegal aliens to third countries without prior notice.
The Trump admin can now deport those illegal aliens even if those countries are not listed in the original removal order, and even if claims of danger have not been pre-screened in court.
While the Supreme Court has not yet issued a full ruling on the underlying constitutional question, Monday’s decision means that Trump’s deportation policy can move forward immediately, despite ongoing litigation.
For now, the Left is outraged, unsurprisingly.
Nevertheless, Trump-era immigration enforcement is back.
Illegal aliens no longer have the power to dictate where they’re deported, or delay the process indefinitely.
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