The Supreme Court has paved the way for the Trump administration to deport a group of immigrants detained at a U.S. military base in Djibouti to South Sudan.
In a concise opinion released on Friday, the justices confirmed that their previous order, which had paused a federal judge’s ruling in Massachusetts that limited the government’s capacity to deport immigrants to countries not specifically mentioned in their removal orders, is fully applicable to the eight immigrants currently in U.S. custody in Djibouti.
This order was issued less than two weeks after the high court temporarily halted a ruling by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, whose decision prohibited the federal government from deporting immigrants to “third countries”—those not explicitly named in their removal orders—without first ensuring, through a series of safeguards, that the individuals would not be subjected to torture upon deportation.
