Supreme court allows Trump to temporarily resume deporting people to third countries – as it happened

The supreme court has allowed the Trump administration to resume deporting people to countries other than their own without offering them the chance to show the harms they may face, bolstering a tool Donald Trump has used for rapid expulsions as part of ⁠his immigration crackdown. The justices granted the DOJ’s request to halt ​Boston-based US district judge Brian Murphy’s ruling that the Department of Homeland Security’s policy to remove migrants to so-called third countries is unlawful, while the administration appeals the matter to the supreme court.

They also agreed to hear arguments in the dispute in December, with a ⁠formal ruling on policy to follow. Federal attorneys said the lower-court decision forced the cancellation of a deportation flight carrying about 70 people bound for three countries. The justices previously allowed the deportation flights, a core Trump administration policy, to temporarily continue when the case came before them last year.

In another win for the administration, the supreme court subsequently lifted limits the judge had imposed to protect a group of men from being sent to South Sudan.…