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A Supreme Court ruling on Monday says that the Trump Administration has the right to deport immigrants who have final orders of removal to countries they are not actually from. It is a big win for Trump, who has seen one lower court after another block his attempts to run various programs and plans how he deems fit. ABC News investigative reporter Peter Charalambous has been following the proceedings in the courtroom; he appeared on 710 WOR’s Mendte in the Morning program to explain that the ruling now clears the way for immigration officials to resume deportation of migrants to third-party countries like El Salvador and South Sudan without additional due process requirements.
Charalambous told host Larry Mendte that SCOTUS justices accepted or rejected the argument about deportations along party lines: “The three liberals, Sotomayor, Kagen and Jackson, basically torched this decision, saying that they’re basically rewarding lawlessness, that the Trump administration has repeatedly broken the lower court’s order, and at this point, with really no justification given for their rationale, the Supreme Court’s conservative majority is deciding to allow them to carry out this process, potentially endangering thousands of migrants.”
Charalambous says the Justice Department’s argument to deport the “worst-of-the-worst” was ultimately convincing to the Supreme Court: “The Trump administration, though, has pushed back, saying that, really, the people who are subject to the order are violent criminals, people who have been convicted or accused of violent crimes and that the United States couldn’t have them anywhere near their soil. (But) at the end of the day, insofar as they have some kind of order of removal, that’s all it takes.”
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