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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Ariana Baio and Maanvi Singh

US supreme court allows Trump officials to resume deportations to third countries

Federal agents escort a detained man through a corridor at immigration court
People at an immigration hearing in New York in August. Photograph: Spencer Platt/Getty Images

The Trump administration can resume quickly deporting immigrants to “third countries”, or countries other than those immigrants’ homeland, without giving them any opportunity to contest their removals, the supreme court ruled on Tuesday.

The six-justice conservative majority of the high court temporarily lifted a lower-court decision that required the administration to provide immigrants sufficient notice and the opportunity to claim fear of torture or persecution in the countries where they are being sent. The Trump administration had claimed this stipulation had prevented it from “efficiently removing aliens” from the US.

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