Administration to ask Supreme Court to allow swift deportations to 3rd countries

A federal court ruling blocked the rapid removal of migrants to third countries. The Trump administration will ask the U.S. Supreme Court to allow it to continue swiftly deporting immigrants to third countries that are different from their country of origin, Attorney General Todd Blanche said on Thursday. Blanche's announcement follows a federal appeals court ruling on Wednesday that cleared the way for a lower court decision blocking the rapid removal of migrants to third countries without a "meaningful opportunity" to contest their deportations. "Without even allowing the government a chance to respond, and in the dark of night, a federal appeals court blocked us from conducting all third-country removals of illegal aliens, an entirely legal and invaluable tool to stem the tide of illegal immigration," Blanche wrote Thursday on X. "We will immediately seek relief from the Supreme Court, which previously granted a stay in this very same case." Attorneys representing people who have been deported to third countries told ABC News that several third-country removal flights that were scheduled for Thursday were canceled. Last week, a three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled that immigrants were not receiving adequate notice before being deported to nations where they have no connections.

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