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Admin Turns to SCOTUS Over Deportations09/25 06:38
A ruling to halt deportations of people to countries other than their own
threw a core immigration policy of the Trump administration into question, at
least temporarily, and prompted a desperate appeal to the Supreme Court on
Thursday.
WASHINGTON (AP) -- A ruling to halt deportations of people to countries
other than their own threw a core immigration policy of the Trump
administration into question, at least temporarily, and prompted a desperate
appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday.
The administration said the ruling by the 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals
came Wednesday just minutes before midnight, forcing the cancellation of a
flight with 70 people that was headed to three countries. It said justices
needed to step in to "halt that chaos" and said the flight cancellation
"required a new round of diplomatic engagement with each of the three
countries," which it did not name.
Plaintiffs for immigrants sought emergency relief from the appeals court
Wednesday night, saying they heard from "multiple sources" that a deportation
flight was scheduled the next day from Alexandria, Louisiana, to Burundi,
Rwanda and the Central African Republic.
Within hours of that request, the appeals court said it was clarifying a
ruling against the policy last week and said a previous order allowing flights
to continue while legal challenges play out was no longer in effect.
Administration officials reacted furiously. Attorney General Todd Blanche
said the order "in the dark of night" robbed authorities of "an entirely legal
and valuable tool to stem the tide of illegal immigration."
The justices
https://apnews.com/article/supreme-court-immigration-trump-south-sudan-c7ffbbced
e3158a3352b2dbf4439780a the deportation flights to temporarily continue when
the case came before them last year.
The vast majority of people deported to countries other than their own have
been sent to Mexico, but under a series of often-secret agreements, the
administration has deported thousands of others to more than two dozen
countries, from Liberia to Guyana.
Some have found themselves in countries they'd never heard of before their
arrivals and
https://apnews.com/article/asylum-seekers-deported-africa-f37fb971a2f463a96bdde4
911feefc7a Some also face serious safety risks, and are left with little choice
except to return to the home countries they were fleeing.
This month, lawyers for two men deported to Equatorial Guinea said they were
https://apnews.com/article/africa-equitorial-guinea-migrants-us-arrests-bde51c87
4fd76b503e04a09ffc7baa98 in a hotel-turned-detention center by police who
covered their heads with bags.
Trump's Republican administration has said that it sends people with final
deportation orders to third countries when their homelands won't accept them or
they can't be returned there. Those governments provide assurances that people
won't be persecuted or tortured, attorneys said.
James Percival, the Department of Homeland Security's general counsel, said
Wednesday on X that 25,000 people in the U.S. illegally have been deported to
third countries, calling those deportations "an essential public safety tool."
The lower court order doesn't completely prohibit third-country
deportations, but it requires the government give people a
https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-deportation-supreme-court-judge-murphy-14
8cee2906dc7286b074116d3eec6fd4.
The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court to halt that decision,
arguing it would force unreasonable delays and the reworking of agreements with
foreign countries.
"The order below would again obstruct DHS from efficiently removing aliens
... by inordinately delaying third-country removal for any alien who voices a
fear of persecution or torture in that country, no matter how frivolous or
belated the claim," Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote.
The appeal comes amid a sweeping immigration crackdown by the Trump
administration, which has pledged to deport millions of people who are living
in the United States illegally.
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