Overview

• By a 6–3 vote, the justices overturned a nationwide injunction that had required migrants to have an opportunity to contest removals to third countries.
• The case involves eight migrants convicted of serious violent crimes who were flown to South Sudan after U.S. authorities determined they could not be repatriated to their homelands.
• Conservative justices held that third-country deportations fall within presidential foreign-policy powers, while liberal dissenters called the decision a gross abuse that endangers migrant safety.
• The Department of Homeland Security can now resume sending migrants to nations such as El Salvador, Libya and South Sudan under existing transfer agreements.
• The Supreme Court’s order is temporary, and lower federal courts will still weigh the fundamental legality of the administration’s third-country removal policy.