The Supreme Court has cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport eight immigrants held at a U.S. military base in Djibouti to South Sudan, overriding a lower court’s restrictions on such transfers.
The justices issued a brief ruling this week affirming that the eight detainees fall under the Court’s previous order, which blocked a Massachusetts federal judge’s decision that had constrained the government’s deportation authority. The lower court ruling had required the administration to follow specific safeguards before sending immigrants to nations not specified in their removal orders.
