The Department of Justice (DOJ) asked the U.S. Supreme Court on Sept. 24 to revive its third-country deportation program that sends deportees to countries that were not named in their removal orders.
The Trump administration has said it removes individuals to third countries when it cannot quickly return them to their home countries.
However, critics say the policy is used to bypass legal restrictions and deter illegal immigration.
The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) policy, adopted in March 2025, allows immigration officials to deport foreign nationals in as little as six hours.
The Supreme Court has already ruled in favor of the program twice on its emergency docket.
As Matthew Vadum further reports via The Epoch Times, following Supreme Court rules, the application is addressed to Justice Ketanji Brown Jackson because she oversees emergency appeals from decisions of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit.
However, U.S. Solicitor General D. John Sauer took the unusual step of asking Jackson to refer the stay request to the full court instead of ruling on it herself if she will not freeze the lower court's order.
Jackson voted against the government both times when the litigation previously came before the high court.
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