New York, NY—Today, the Supreme Court sided with the Trump administration, allowing it to resume fast track deportations of immigrants to third-party countries other than their countries of origin, while the legal challenge to the policy continues. The Supreme Court also announced that it will hear oral arguments at the end of this year to determine its final ruling. The court’s order overturns lower courts’ findings that immigrants have a constitutional right to "meaningful notice" and a hearing to object if they fear torture or persecution in the designated third country.
Under third party deportation diplomatic agreements, the Trump administration has deported roughly 25,000 immigrants to more than two dozen third countries since January 2025.
Murad Awawdeh, President and CEO, New York Immigration Coalition:
“Every person who resides here deserves access to due process before being removed from the country they call home. By allowing the Trump administration to resume these third-party deportations, the Supreme Court has opened the door for people to be rapidly deported to countries they do not have any connection to–including personal or family ties–having to face language and cultural barriers, as well as possibly persecution or torture. No one should have to live with the fear that their loved one could be sent thousands of miles away to an unfamiliar country without a meaningful opportunity to have their day in court. A country that deports people without a hearing is not enforcing its laws. It is abandoning them. This ruling is another tool the federal government is using to expand its mass deportation agenda, putting more lives at risk and destabilizing our communities. The Trump administration must end this inhumane practice and stop treating people’s lives as disposable, and provide individuals in deportation proceedings—often facing life or death consequences— the right to counsel and due process. We will not accept a system where people's lives are treated as cargo.”