U.S. SC allows Trump administration to deport immigrants to "third countries"

Washington, June 24 -- The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday lifted limits on the Trump administration's deportation of immigrants to "third countries."

The conservative-dominated Supreme Court's 6-3 ruling came in a legal dispute over the Trump administration's efforts to swiftly deport immigrants to countries other than their own.

The three liberal justices on the court all dissented, with Justice Sonia Sotomayor warning that "In matters of life and death, it is best to proceed with caution. In this case, the Government took the opposite approach."

The Trump administration applauded the Supreme Court's decision. Tricia McLaughlin, assistant secretary for Public Affairs in the U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS), noted in a stateme...