Overview

• The high court issued unsigned emergency orders this week overturning Judge Brian Murphy’s April and May injunctions and lifting due process safeguards for third-country removals.
• On July 5, the Department of Homeland Security completed the transfer of eight men convicted of serious crimes in the US from a military base in Djibouti into South Sudan.
• South Sudan’s Level 4 travel advisory warns of crime, kidnapping and armed conflict, prompting attorneys and dissenting justices to warn the deportees could face imprisonment, torture or death.
• U.S. District Judge Randolph Moss briefly paused the removals on new constitutional claims, and lower courts are still weighing challenges to the administration’s third-country removal policy.
• The Trump administration argues third-country agreements with nations like Panama, Costa Rica and Libya are critical when migrants’ home countries refuse to accept those with criminal convictions.