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The Guardian - US
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Ariana Baio and agencies

Trump officials ask supreme court to allow third-country deportations

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Liberia's national police officers stand guard for a plane carrying migrants deported from the US at the Roberts international airport in Harbel, on 20 August 2026. Photograph: Matthew Jacobs/AFP/Getty Images

The Trump administration has asked the US supreme court to allow it to deport immigrants to countries other than their own, the latest effort to seek approval for a controversial policy that fulfils Donald Trump’s mass deportation agenda.

Todd Blanche, the US attorney general, said on Thursday morning that the Department of Justice would ask the conservative-majority supreme court for help, nearly a week after a lower court judge rejected the policy.

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