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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
World
Martin Belam

First Thing: ‘Third country’ deportation can resume, US supreme court rules

Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents make an arrest.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents make an arrest. Photograph: Erin Hooley/AP

Good morning. The supreme court has ruled the Trump administration can resume deporting immigrants to “third countries”, or countries other than their homeland, without giving them any opportunity to contest their removals.

The six-justice conservative majority of the high court temporarily lifted a decision by a lower court that required the administration to provide immigrants sufficient notice and the opportunity to claim fear of torture or persecution in the countries where they were being sent.

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