The Supreme Court allowed the Trump administration on Tuesday to continue to deport immigrants to countries other than those they came from, known as third-country removals, in an order that also set up a final legal fight over the practice.
Tuesday’s order lifted a lower-court order blocking the practice, which the Trump administration has sought to use to speed deportations. The administration has used the policy to deport thousands of immigrants to countries such as El Salvador, Libya and South Sudan, according to court records.
