❓WHAT HAPPENED: The Supreme Court authorized the deportation of certain illegal immigrants to third countries, overturning a lower court injunction. However, the district court moved to reinstate its order just hours later, regardless.
👤WHO WAS INVOLVED: The Trump administration, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), eight illegal alien criminals, U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy, and the Supreme Court.
📍WHEN & WHERE: The Supreme Court ruling was issued on Monday, following a lower court injunction in Boston, with the district court reinstating its injunction late Monday.
💬KEY QUOTE: “Expect fireworks tomorrow when we hold this judge accountable for refusing to obey the Supreme Court,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller stated late Monday evening.
🎯IMPACT: Deportations of criminal illegal immigrants to third countries are expected to resume quickly, though the actions of Judge Murphy could complicate matters in the short term.
In a major win for the Trump administration’s immigration agenda, the Supreme Court on Monday authorized the deportation of certain illegal immigrants to “third countries,” overturning a lower-court injunction that had halted the removals. “With this decision, DHS can finally exercise its undisputed authority to deport criminal illegal aliens—who are not wanted in their home country—to third countries that have agreed to accept them,” the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said in a statement. The order follows a decision by a far-left judge that had left U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents and eight criminal migrants stranded in Djibouti.
The 6-3 ruling stayed a lower court injunction that had blocked the removals, with left-wing Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting. The case involved eight migrants convicted of serious crimes who challenged their deportations after being transferred to Sudan. They claimed they were unlawfully sent to countries not listed in their original removal orders.
U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy had previously blocked their deportations, requiring that the immigrants remain in U.S. custody until undergoing a “reasonable fear interview” to assess potential persecution. Solicitor General D. John Sauer argued that Murphy’s decision obstructed immigration enforcement and delayed the deportation of “some of the worst of the worst illegal aliens.”
Despite the high court’s ruling, just hours later, Judge Murphy reinstated his injunction specific to the illegal immigrants in Djibouti—in blatant defiance of the Supreme Court’s order. Judge Murphy late Monday wrote that his prior injunction “remains in full force and effect, notwithstanding today’s stay of the Preliminary Injunction.” The district court judge goes on to cite Justice Sonia Sotomayor’s dissent, arguing that the case was “not properly before [the Supreme] Court.”
“Expect fireworks tomorrow when we hold this judge accountable for refusing to obey the Supreme Court,” White House deputy chief of staff Stephen Miller stated late Monday evening.
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