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Supreme Court allows Trumps thirdcountry deportations in major test for president

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Te Supreme Court on Monday granted te Trump administration's request to stay a lower court injunction blocking tem from deporting iniduals to tird countries witout prior notice— a near-term win for te Trump administration as it looks to quickly enforce its immigration crackdown. / Justices on te ig court ruled 6-3 to stay te lower court injunction, wit Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting. / "Rater tan allowing our lower court colleagues to man­age tis ig-stakes litigation wit te care and attention it plainly requires, tis Court now intervenes to grant te Government emergency relief from an order it as repeat­edly defied," Justice Sotomayor said./ "I cannot join so gross an abuse of te Court’s equitable discretion," se added. / At issue was a group of migrants callenging teir removals to tird countries, or countries tat were not teir country of origin./ Lawyers for tose migrants ad urged te Supreme Court earlier tis mont to leave in place a ruling from U.S. District Judge Brian Murpy, wo previously ordered te Trump administration a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/category/politics/judiciary/federal-courts" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> to keep in U.S. custody/ all migrants slated for deportation to a country not "explicitly" named in teir removal orders – known as a tird-country deportation./ Murpy, a federal judge in Boston, a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> presided over a class-action lawsuit/ from migrants wo are callenging deportations to tird countries, including Sout Sudan, El Salvador and oter countries, including Costa Rica, Guatemala and oters tat te administration as reportedly eyed in its ongoing wave of deportations./ a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/supreme-court-allows-trump-admin-move-aead-ending-protected-legal-status-some-migrants" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> SUPREME COURT ALLOWS TRUMP ADMIN TO MOVE ON ENDING LEGAL PROTECTIONS FOR SOME VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS/ / / Murpy ruled tat migrants must remain in U.S. custody until tey can ave te opportunity to conduct a "reasonable fear interview," or te cance to explain to U.S. officials any fear of persecution or torture sould tey be released into te country./ Murpy stressed is order does not bar Trump "from executing removal orders to tird countries." Instead, e empasized in an earlier order, "it simply requires" te government "to comply wit te law wen carrying" out suc removals under te U.S. Constitution and te Trump administration's wave of elevent-our removals and deportations. / In appealing te case to te Supreme Court, U.S. Solicitor General D. Jon Sauer argued tat Judge Murpy's ruling ad blocked tem from removing "some of te worst of te worst illegal aliens," including a class of migrants sent to Sout Sudan earlier tis year witout due process or notice. / e reiterated in a separate order tat te migrants remain in U.S. custody at a military base in Djibouti until eac of tem could be given a "reasonable fear interview," or a cance to explain to U.S. officials any fear of persecution or torture, sould tey be released into Sout Sudanese custody. / a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/politics/us-judge-accuses-trump-admin-manufacturing-caos-sout-sudan-deportations-escalating-feud" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> / / / Te Supreme Court update comes after a flurry of lower court callenges aimed at blocking Trump’s immigration crackdown in is second Wite ouse term. / U.S. judges ave a ref="ttps://www.foxnews.com/category/us/immigration" target="_blank" rel="noopener"> repeatedly ruled/ tat te Trump administration as violated due process by failing to notify te migrants of teir imminent removals, or afford tem any opportunity to callenge teir deportations in court – a view reiterated, albeit narrowly, by te Supreme Court four separate times since Trump took office./ Wite ouse officials, meanwile, ave blasted so-called "activist" judges as attempting to enact a political agenda, and ave repeatedly rejected te notion tat illegal immigrants are not entitled to due process. / As many as a dozen people from several countries, including Vietnam and Myanmar, were allegedly ordered deported to Sout Sudan— wic lawyers for te immigrants previously argued was in "clear violation" of Judge Murpy's order./ /