The US Supreme Court has allowed President Donald Trump’s administration to temporarily continue deporting immigrants to countries that are not their own, while the justices consider the legality of this policy.
The court announced it will hear arguments on whether migrants must have a real opportunity to file an objection before being sent to countries with which they have no connection.
Based on a series of agreements, which were often secret, the Trump administration deported 25,000 people to 24 countries, including Liberia and Guyana, with the vast majority sent to Mexico.
The Trump administration states that it sends people with final deportation orders to third countries when they cannot be returned to their home countries or when those countries refuse to accept them, including cases of individuals who have been criminally convicted.
The governments of those countries provide assurances that these individuals will not be subjected to persecution or torture, federal legal representatives claim.
However, some migrants have nevertheless ended up in prisons in countries they had never even heard of before. Some also face serious security risks and have little choice but to return to the countries they fled from.
Many of them do not have criminal records, and it has been determined that they are at risk of torture or persecution, according to lawyers representing the immigrants.
The Trump administration is conducting a comprehensive campaign to curb illegal immigration, promising to deport millions of people residing illegally in the US.
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