Supreme Court lets Trump resume deportations to countries migrants have no ties to
WASHINGTON, DC: After controversy over the Trump administration’s plan to deport migrants to ‘third world’ countries, the Supreme Court on Tuesday, September 29, allowed the federal government to resume deporting migrants to third countries with which they have no prior ties while the legal challenge proceeds.
A media report published in late August claimed that hundreds of Afghan, Cuban, and other immigrants had been deported to several African countries.
Notably, Scores of immigrants from Afghanistan and other countries have sought refuge in the United States because of instability, insecurity and other circumstances in their home countries.
Supreme Court allows Trump to restart his third country deportation
The decision marked the third time the high court has allowed the Trump administration to enforce that effort on a temporary basis. It has announced it will hear full oral arguments on the legality of the policy in December.
The court did not explain the reasoning of its decision in a short and unsigned verdict.
The justices asked the parties to address several questions, including whether the district court had jurisdiction to hear the case, whether it had authority to issue an order covering the entire class of affected migrants and whether the Trump administration's third-country deportation policy is lawful.
Under the policy, the administration can swiftly remove noncitizens to countries other than their homelands.
The Supreme Court's order temporarily lifted a lower-court requirement that migrants be allowed to raise concerns about persecution, torture or other potential harm before being deported to a third country.
The policy to deport migrants to such places was launched last year as part of the Trump administration’s wider crackdown on immigration.
Trump administration decided to deport those migrants to some other country, even if the migrant had no ties to the destination, after their homeland declined to receive them.
Hundreds of Afghans, Cubans deported to South African countries
According to internal US government documents obtained by CBS News, over a period of 10 days, the Trump administration sent more than 100 deportees from Afghanistan, Cuba, Nicaragua, and other nations to eight countries across Africa, expanding its "third country" deportation campaign.
The eight African countries were Burundi, Cameroon, the Central African Republic, Equatorial Guinea, Eswatini, Liberia, Rwanda and Sierra Leone.
Notably, none of the deportees were citizens of the countries to which they were sent, according to the CBS News report.
An estimated 25,000 migrants have already been removed under the policy.
Trump’s policy drew scrutiny last year after a migrants’ rights group revealed that a group of migrants, initially bound for South Sudan, were being detained in Djibouti.
