Overview

• The unsigned emergency order lifted U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy’s injunction that required written notice and a meaningful opportunity for migrants to raise fear-of-torture claims before third-country removals.
• Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented in a 19-page opinion warning that migrants sent abroad without due process face possible torture or death.
• In May, immigration officials tried to send eight convicted migrants to South Sudan but were diverted to a U.S. naval base in Djibouti after Murphy’s order halted the flight.
• The third-country deportation policy targets migrants from Myanmar, Vietnam, Cuba, Laos and Mexico whose home governments have often refused to accept their return.
• The ruling marks another win for President Trump’s sweeping immigration crackdown and sends the underlying challenge back to an appeals court for further review.