Supreme Court Lets Trump Resume Third-Country Deportations Pending December Fight
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Updated · Fox News · Oct 3
Supreme Court Lets Trump Resume Third-Country Deportations Pending December Fight
3 articles · Updated · Fox News · Oct 3
Summary
Tuesday’s Supreme Court stay lets DHS keep deporting some migrants to third countries while the justices review a lower-court ruling that had imposed stricter due-process requirements.
December arguments will focus on procedure—not DHS’s underlying authority—including whether the policy complies with federal immigration law, due process and anti-torture safeguards.
DHS General Counsel James Percival said the policy is aimed at migrants whose home countries refuse repatriation, arguing third-country removals can avoid releasing convicted criminals after the six-month detention limit recognized in the 2001 Zadvydas case.
Equatorial Guinea has become a flashpoint: Washington agreed to pay Malabo $7.5 million to accept deportees, while human-rights advocates cite allegations some arrivals were beaten by local authorities.
The administration casts the policy as a revival of powers Congress wrote into the 1996 immigration law, part of a broader push to use long-dormant deportation tools more aggressively.