President Donald Trump is asking the Supreme Court to block a lower court order restricting the Department of Homeland Security’s (DHS) ability to deport illegal immigrants to nations other than their home countries.
“On behalf of a nationwide class of aliens with final orders of removal, the district court issued an extraordinary preliminary injunction that restrains DHS from exercising its undisputed statutory authority to remove an alien to a country not specifically identified in his removal order (i.e., a ‘third country’), unless DHS first satisfies an onerous set of procedures invented by the district court to assess any potential claim under the Convention Against Torture,” the Justice Department said in a filing on May 27.
It added that, “Those judicially created procedures are currently wreaking havoc on the third country removal process.”
The administration had been removing individuals to South Sudan, but was blocked by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts.
This is a developing story and will be updated.
