Trump asks Supreme Court to halt judges order blocking deportations of criminal migrants to South Sudan

The Trump administration petitioned the Supreme Court Tuesday to overturn a lower court order blocking deportations of criminal migrants to South Sudan, and other so-called “third countries,” without adequate due process. “This case addresses the government’s ability to remove some of the worst of the worst illegal immigrants,” Solicitor General D.John Sauer wrote in the emergency appeal to the high court.

“The United States is facing a crisis of illegal immigration, in no small part because many aliens most deserving of removal are often the hardest to remove.”US District Judge Brian Murphy, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, blocked the Trump administration in March from deporting migrants to countries where they do not originate from – “third countries” – without first offering the targets for deportation written notice and a chance to object to their removal. Last week, Murphy determined that the administration “unquestionably” violated his court order when it put eight migrants with violent criminal convictions onto a flight to war-torn South Sudan — and may have committed criminal contempt. “This Court should stay the district court’s injunction,” Sauer asked the Supreme Court.“The Court should also enter an immediate administrative stay of the district court’s injunction pending its consideration of this application.”Sauer argued that securing third countries, such as South Sudan, to accept “some of the most undesirable aliens” is a delicate process – which is being thwarted by lower courts. The process “requires sensitive diplomacy, which involves negotiation and the balancing of other foreign-policy interests,” the solicitor general wrote, noting that “until recently, those efforts were working.”“Just last week, the government was in the process of removing a group of criminal aliens who had been in the country for years or decades after receiving final orders of removal, despite having ...