Trump administration to ask supreme court to allow third-country deportation policy
US attorney general Todd Blanche says justice department will ask high court for help after lower court rejected policy
TL;DR
- The Trump administration is seeking Supreme Court approval for its third-country deportation policy.
- A federal appeals court previously blocked the policy, upholding a lower court's decision.
- The policy allows immigrants to be deported to countries other than their own, with over 25,000 sent to at least 29 third countries.
- Some deportations have occurred to dangerous nations, including the Central African Republic and South Sudan.
- Human rights advocates condemn the policy, while the administration defends it as necessary to deter illegal immigration.