Supreme allows migrant deportation to third countries!
Washington, Jun 23 (EFE). –
The United States Supreme Court temporarily allowed the government of President Donald Trump to resume migrant deportations to third countries. The decision suspended a federal judge’s order that had held up the deportation of eight immigrants, including two Cubans and one Mexican, to South Sudan.
In an unsigned order, the Supreme Court overturned the ruling of Massachusetts federal Judge Brian Murphy, who last month had ruled that the Trump administration had violated an order that prevented the deportation of the eight immigrants to a country where they could be tortured without being given adequate legal representation.
Monday’s order puts Murphy’s ruling on hold while the legal process continues in the lower courts.
Due to Judge Murphy’s previous ruling, the eight immigrants and eleven immigration agents have been stranded at an air base in Djibouti.
According to government lawyers, they are in danger of a potential attack from Yemen and face health risks due to “deplorable” conditions.
The Trump administration argued before the Supreme Court that the immigrants sent to third countries had committed crimes and that their own countries did not want to receive them.
Of the eight immigrants, only one is from South Sudan, and the rest are from Cuba, Mexico, Laos, Burma, and Vietnam.
US law stipulates that the government cannot deport migrants to third countries where they could be tortured or put at risk.
The State Department considers South Sudan a dangerous country due to armed conflict. It advises Americans not to travel there and withdrew its non-essential personnel from the country in early May.
The South Sudan case is the latest clash between the GOP and the judiciary amid increasingly aggressive measures to fulfill Trump’s promise of “mass deportations.”
Washington is seeking agreements with other countries to accept migrants expelled from the United States to speed up deportations.
The Trump administration ordered the deportation of more than 200 people to a mega-jail in El Salvador, where most are still being held incommunicado by their families and lawyers.
Trump and El Salvador’s President Nayib Bukele reached a secret agreement for the Central American country to receive the migrants for an initial period of one year in exchange for a payment of 6 million dollars. EFE
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