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Trump asks US Supreme Court to intervene to allow third-country deportations · GNN Daily Breaking News

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  Speaker 1: The Department of Justice has filed an emergency request asking
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  Speaker 1: the Supreme Court to intervene and restore the executive branch's
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  Speaker 1: policy allowing immigration authorities to deport migrants to third countries
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  Speaker 1: without providing them prior notice or an opportunity to contest
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  Speaker 1: their transfers. The filing asks the conservative majority high court
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  Speaker 1: to stay a lower court ruling that declared the Department
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  Speaker 1: of Homeland Security's third country removal procedures unlawful for violating
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  Speaker 1: statutory requirements and constitutional due process. Guarantees under the Fifth Amendment.
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  Speaker 1: Federal officials argue that judicial intervention is urgently required to
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  Speaker 1: preserve a central operational tool of the administration's broader enforcement
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  Speaker 1: agenda and prevent significant disruptions to foreign policy agreements. The
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  Speaker 1: legal showdown stems from a class action lawsuit challenging administrative
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  Speaker 1: policy memos that authorized federal agents to deport non-citizens to
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  Speaker 1: foreign nations where they have no personal or familial ties.
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  Speaker 1: While federal law permits removals to third countries under narrow
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  Speaker 1: statutory circumstances, immigration advocates and civil rights groups demonstrated that
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  Speaker 1: homeland security officials were executing rapid transfers with minimal notice.
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  Speaker 1: systematically denying migrants the ability to assert claims regarding potential persecution, torture,
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  Speaker 1: or physical danger in recipient nations. US District Judge Brian
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  Speaker 1: Murphy in Boston ruled the policy illegal in February, a
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  Speaker 1: decision that was largely upheld by a three-judge panel on
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  Speaker 1: the First Circuit Court of Appeals. The appellate panel noted
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  Speaker 1: that the government failed to prove foreign governments provided credible
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  Speaker 1: diplomatic assurances that deportees would remain safe from harm. In
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  Speaker 1: its emergency petition to the Supreme Court, the Justice Department
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  Speaker 1: warned that halting third country removals severely undermines executive authority
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  Speaker 1: and disrupts sensitive diplomatic arrangements forged with dozens of foreign governments.
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  Speaker 1: Administration officials highlighted that lower court injunctions have already forced
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  Speaker 1: the cancellation of planned removal flights. leaving federal authorities unable
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  Speaker 1: to quickly expel foreign nationals whose homelands refuse to accept
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  Speaker 1: them or who cannot be legally returned to their country
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  Speaker 1: of origin. Human rights organizations counter that the policy has
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  Speaker 1: resulted in thousands of individuals being transferred to unstable or
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  Speaker 1: repressive regimes, where deportees have faced detention, extortion, and physical abuse.
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  Speaker 1: With thousands of deportation cases impacted across the country, the
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  Speaker 1: High Court's imminent response will determine whether federal agencies can
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  Speaker 1: continue third country removals while full judicial proceedings continue.