The Trump administration is spending the holiday weekend enjoying news from the nation’s high court that deportation plans will move forward.
According to a July 3 ruling from the Supreme Court, the longstanding tradition of deporting unwanted illegal aliens to a third country (removing them from the United States, and not sending them to their nation of origin) will be allowed to continue, as Fox News reported.
That practice was heavily disputed by many in the immigrant rights community, with widespread outcries that this was a violation of national and international law. The Supreme Court found otherwise.
From the Court
The Supreme Court’s unsigned opinion ruled for a second time on the issue, granting the administration’s request for clarification on their June 23 stay of a lower court’s injunction that blocked the removals.
“The motion for clarification is granted,” the court wrote. “The May 21 remedial order cannot now be used to enforce an injunction that our stay rendered unenforceable.”
The lower court’s decision, which the Supreme Court nullified, ordered the administration to give illegal immigrants notice to bring a claim of possible torture if they were sent to another country.
Case Details
The claim that immigrants’ rights were being violated is what led to a district court judge’s findings that the administration was violating an April injunction.
According to the judge, several migrants were not allowed a “meaningful opportunity” to make a case against removal, despite these migrants being called by the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) “barbaric criminal illegal aliens.”
At the time that the case began making its way through the court system, there were no fewer than eight individuals in question, all of whom were picked up for violent offenses, including convictions for murder, robbery, armed assault, and sex crimes involving minors
Among the plaintiffs were Enrique Arias-Hierro, who was previously convicted of homicide and armed robbery. Also, there was Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Quinones, who was convicted of attempted first-degree murder, as well as Kyaw Mya and Nyo Myint, both of whom were convicted of serious sex offenses against either minors or other vulnerable victims.
From Both Sides
Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the majority decision, saying that the court was allowing for possible torture and death through the ruling.
“Today’s order clarifies only one thing: Other litigants must follow the rules, but the administration has the Supreme Court on speed dial. Respectfully, I dissent,” Sotomayor wrote. “The Government seeks to nullify [basic rights] by deporting noncitizens to potentially dangerous countries without notice or the opportunity to assert a fear of torture.”
However, DHS lauded the ruling, with Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin calling this “A win for the rule of law, safety and security of the American people … These sickos will be in South Sudan by Independence Day.”
Likewise, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said in a post on X, formerly Twitter, of the ruling: “This is another incredible victory for America. Thank you to the Supreme Court for ruling on the side of law and order, and affirming the executive authority of the President.”
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