The U.S. Supreme Court handed President Donald Trump’s administration a major win on Monday, ruling in favor of the administration’s request for a stay against a lower court order that prevented the administration from deporting illegal immigrants to third countries without advanced notice.
According to Fox News, the Supreme Court ruled 6-3 on Monday to grant the Trump administration’s request to stay a preliminary injunction that was previously issued by a U.S. District Court in Massachusetts. The outlet noted that Justice Sonia Sotomayor, Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson, and Justice Elena Kagan dissented in Wednesday’s ruling.
In her dissenting opinion on Monday, Sotomayor wrote, “Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention it plainly requires, this Court now intervenes to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied. I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion.”
Fox News reported that U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy had previously ordered the Trump administration to keep custody of all illegal immigrants scheduled for deportation to a country not included in deportation orders, which is known as a third country. In his order, Murphy ruled that illegal immigrants had to remain in U.S. custody until they had a chance to complete a “reasonable fear interview” or an opportunity to outline any fear of torture or persecution they might face if they were released into a different country.
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According to Fox News, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued in the Trump administration’s appeal to the Supreme Court that Murphy’s injunction had prevented the federal government from removing “some of the worst of the worst illegal aliens” from the United States.
Following the Supreme Court’s ruling on Monday, Assistant Secretary of Homeland Security Tricia McLaughlin released a statement on X, formerly Twitter, saying, “Fire up the deportation planes. The SCOTUS ruling is a victory for the safety and security of the American people. The Biden Administration allowed millions of illegal aliens to flood our country, and, now, the Trump Administration can exercise its undisputed authority to remove these criminal illegal aliens and clean up this national security nightmare.”
“If these activists judges had their way, aliens who are so uniquely barbaric that their own countries won’t take them back, including convicted murderers, child rapists and drug traffickers, would walk free on American streets,” McLaughlin added. “DHS can now execute its lawful authority and remove illegal aliens to a country willing to accept them.”
