Supreme Court allows Trump's third-country deportations, in major test for president
The Supreme Court has been asked to preside over a flurry of lower court challenges centered on Trump’s immigration crackdown.
By Breanne Deppisch , Shannon Bream , Bill Mears Fox News
Published June 23, 2025 4:50pm EDT | Updated June 23, 2025 5:22pm EDT
The Supreme Court on Monday granted the Trump administration's request to stay a lower court injunction blocking them from deporting individuals to third countries without prior notice— a near-term win for the Trump administration as it looks to quickly enforce its immigration crackdown.
Justices on the high court ruled 6-3 to stay the lower court injunction, with Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting.
"Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention it plainly requires, this Court now intervenes to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied," Justice Sotomayor said.
"I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion," she added.
At issue was a group of migrants challenging their removals to third countries, or countries that were not their country of origin.
Lawyers for those migrants had urged the Supreme Court earlier this month to leave in place a ruling from U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, who previously ordered the Trump administration to keep in U.S. custody all migrants slated for deportation to a country not "explicitly" named in their removal orders – known as a third-country deportation.
Murphy, a federal judge in Boston, presided over a class-action lawsuit from migrants who are challenging deportations to third countries, including South Sudan, El Salvador and other countries, including Costa Rica, Guatemala and others that the administration has reportedly eyed in its ongoing wave of deportations.
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