Supreme Court gives Trump deportation win
By: Maureen Gropps
USA Today
WASHINGTON - An ideologically divided Supreme Court agreed June 23 [2025] to pause a judge's order requiring migrants be harmed if removed to countries other then their own, a win for the Trump administration's a win for the Trump administration's efforts to rapidly deport them.
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"Fire up the deportation planes," the Department of Homeland Security said on social media.
..... The decision came over the objections of the court;s three liberal justices: Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagen and Ketanji Brown Jackson.
..... Sotomayor wrote that her colleagues are "rewarding lawlessness."
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"Apparently, the Court finds the idea that thousands will suffer violence in far-flung locales more palatable than the remote possibility tat a District court exceeded its remedial powers when it ordered the Government to provide notice and process to which the plaintiffs are constitutional and statutorily entitled," she wrote in a sharply worded, 19-page dissent that Kagan and Jackson joined. "that use of evisceration is as incomprehensible as it is inexcusable."
..... The majority did not provide an explanation for their decision, which is common in emergency appeals.
..... Attorney for the migrants said the decision has horrifying consequences but noted that the Supreme Court's ruling was about a judge's intervention at an intermediate stage of the case.
..... "We now need to move as swiftly as possible to conclude the case and restore these protections," Trina Realmuto, executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance,s aid in a statement.
..... The administration said the order lifted by the justices of deportations potentially thousands of deportations by requiring an "onerous set of procedures" aimed at preventing migrants from being sent to a country where they reasonably fear they could be persecuted, tortured or killed.
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Sotomayor said the government is acting like an "arsonist who calls 911 to report firefighters for violating a noise ordinance."
..... U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston said the migrants need to be told where they are going and given a meaningful opportunity to tell the United States that they might be harmed if sent there.
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On May 21, 2[205] Murphy said the Trump administration violated his order by removing eight migrant to conflict-ridden South Sudan without giving them an opportunity to object.
..... The migrants; lawyers said the administration has "repeatedly sought to remove people as a punitive measure, to some" of the most dangerous places on the planet, and with only hours' notice."
..... Many, if not most, of the migrants covered by the judge's order have no criminal convictions, the lawyers said.
..... One of the migrant represented by the attorney, a Guatemalan man who was deported to Mexico, was flown back June 4 [2025] after the judge ordered his return.
..... Murphy issued that directive after the Justice Department said it had wrongly told the court the man was not afraid of being sent to Mexico.