Law enforcement walk with Leonardo Fabian Cando Juntamay as he was detained in the Bronx during ICE led operations to apprehend illegal immigrants on Tuesday January 28, 2025 in New York, NY.
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The Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Trump administration to resume quick deportations of certain immigrants to countries other than their own without advance warning.
The court lifted an injunction that a federal District Court judge had imposed that blocked the practice. Monday’s order by the Supreme Court will remain in effect as an appeal in the case by the Trump administration plays out.
The Supreme Court’s three liberal justices dissented from the order.
“In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution,” one of those justices, Sonia Sotomayor, wrote.
“In this case, the Government took the opposite approach. It wrongfully deported one plaintiff to Guatemala, even though an Immigration Judge found he was likely to face torture there. Then, in clear violation of a court order, it deported six more to South Sudan, a nation the State Department considers too unsafe for all but its most critical personnel.”
“An attentive District Court’s timely intervention only narrowly prevented a third set of unlawful removals to Libya,” Sotomayor wrote.
Rather than allowing our lower court colleagues to manage this high-stakes litigation with the care and attention it plainly requires, this Court now intervenes to grant the Government emergency relief from an order it has repeatedly defied. I cannot join so gross an abuse of the Court’s equitable discretion,” she wrote.
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