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Trump administration again urges justices to allow deportations to third-party countries

Telling the justices that it had been deprived of "an essential tool to remove certain aliens, including some of the worst criminal aliens," the Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon. 20 executive order in which President Donald Trump instructed the Department of Homeland Security to take "all appropriate actions" to remove noncitizens who were in the United States despite having orders to deport them.

Trump administration again urges justices to allow deportations to third-party countries

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Telling the justices that it had been deprived of "an essential tool to remove certain aliens, including some of the worst criminal aliens," the Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Thursday...

20 executive order in which President Donald Trump instructed the Department of Homeland Security to take "all appropriate actions" to remove noncitizens who were in the United States despite having orders...

That order prompted DHS to <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/05/trump-administr...

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Telling the justices that it had been deprived of "an essential tool to remove certain aliens, including some of the worst criminal aliens," the Trump administration came to the Supreme Court on Thursday afternoon. 20 executive order in which President Donald Trump instructed the Department of Homeland Security to take "all appropriate actions" to remove noncitizens who were in the United States despite having orders to deport them. That order prompted DHS to <a href="https://www.scotusblog.com/2025/05/trump-administr...

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Sauer told the justices on Thursday that "[t]he latest order" by U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy barring the third-country removals "rests on the same fundamentally flawed legal premises as the previous rulings." Sauer also asked the court to enter an "immediate administrative stay" – an order that would allow the government to continue deportations while the justices consider his request. The dispute began last year, in the wake of a Jan.

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