Third-country removals put on hold, triggering Trump request to Supreme Court

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The Department of Homeland Security asked the Supreme Court to let it resume deporting immigrants to countries other than their own, after the First Circuit upheld a Massachusetts court finding that the practice violates due process. The government wants a stay while its appeal proceeds, arguing it should have been allowed to respond before the appeals court ruled.

Solicitor General D. John Sauer says the ruling has already caused a canceled flight carrying 70 immigrants with criminal convictions bound for three countries, and that thousands more removals are now in limbo. Immigrants' attorney Trina Realmuto counters that the administration has said repeatedly it wants to keep sending people to countries where they face torture or persecution.

Deportees under the challenged policy have gone to 35 countries, including the Central African Republic, which the State Department itself warns Americans not to visit, and two men sent to Equatorial Guinea under a $7.5 million deal say they were beaten and held at gunpoint.

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Sending people somewhere the State Department tells its own citizens to stay away from is a strange kind of due process. When the emergency you rush to the Supreme Court over is a canceled flight rather than the men who might get beaten on arrival, you've told on yourself about which part worries you. A $7.5 million handshake with a country under a travel warning isn't logistics, it's a business deal with somebody else's safety as the product.

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