Supreme Court allows removals to third countries for now while it weighs Trump policy

Lindsay Whitehurst for the Associated Press reports that the Supreme Court today "let President Donald Trump’s administration continue swiftly deporting people to countries other than their own for now, while the justices consider whether the policy is legal." Justices Sotomayor, Kagan, and Jackson would have denied the application for a stay of the lower court order.

The First Circuit had "require[d] the government to give migrants a chance to object before they are sent to countries to which they have no ties."

The Supreme Court will hear arguments this fall.

Update (Sept. 30): NPR reports: "Third-country removals allow the government to send immigrants elsewhere when their home countries refuse to accept them, NPR’s Linda Kenyon says. Immigration advocates warn the policy could cause irreparable damage. One immigrant challenging the policy says he fears being sent to a country where he would not receive treatment for his severe mental illness."