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SCOTUS deportation ruling called a win for safety, security

SCOTUS deportation ruling called a win for safety, security

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SCOTUS deportation ruling called a win for safety, security

An immigration enforcement advocacy organization is praising the decision of the Supreme Court to allow Donald Trump’s administration to restart swift deportation of migrants to countries other than their homelands.

The 6-3 decision is being hailed as a major victory for Trump.

The high court cleared the way for the administration to deport dangerous illegal aliens to countries other than their own without being forced to hold hearings for every would-be migrant to challenge their deportations. A spokesman for the Department of Homeland Security called the decision "a victory for the safety and security of the American people."

Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote that the court’s action exposes “thousands to the risk of torture or death” and gives the Trump administration a win despite earlier violating the lower court’s order when it refused to turn around a plane loaded with illegal immigrants bound for El Salvador.

“The government has made clear in word and deed that it feels itself unconstrained by law, free to deport anyone anywhere without notice or an opportunity to be heard,” she wrote in the dissent, joined by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson.

Mehlman, Ira (Federation for American Immigration Reform) Mehlman

Ira Mehlman is media director for the Federation for American Immigration Reform. He says the ruling takes pressure off the administration which is facing the refusal of numerous countries to take back their own citizens.

“The practical effect is that we have a lot of people here who have final orders of deportation, and because their countries refused to take them back, they stay here indefinitely. We need to have some mechanism by which we can actually execute the final orders of deportation. And if it means sending them to a third country that's willing to accept them, then that's the option."

Mehlman says there also needs to be more pressure exerted on the recalcitrant home countries.

That’s in the works, but the Supreme Court decision allows for a quicker fix.

“This administration has shown the willingness to do that. That they can cut off new visas to people from those countries, particularly people among the elite who want to be able to travel here, government officials. So, we do have the leverage. But in the meantime, the court has said that just because your home country won't take you back doesn't mean that you have to stay here."

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