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The Supreme Court Just Cosigned One of Trump's Most Lawless Immigration Moves - Elie Mystal @ The Nation
The Nation (Archived)
always knew that Donald Trump’s unhinged cruelty toward immigrants would find aid and comfort among the Republicans on the Supreme Court. But I held out hope that his brazen violations of lower-court orders might give the Republicans pause before greenlighting Trump’s continued terror campaign against people who didn’t happen to be born here.
On Monday, that small sliver of hope was dashed. The Supreme Court issued a ruling from its emergency docket allowing Trump to send immigrants to third-party countries—even ones where they might be tortured and killed. The Republican order violates this country’s constitutional grant of due process, international human rights laws, literal treaties to which this country is a signatory, and basic human decency. In other words, it was a bog-standard Republican Supreme Court ruling.
The case, Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D, involves Trump’s ongoing practice of deporting people to third-party countries where the immigrants aren’t even from.
The fact that our country can do this at all is sick and disgusting. Imagine: You come here, fleeing violence in your home country. Your mere presence in this country is deemed a violation of our (stupid and cruel) immigration laws, so we decide to deport you. But our own government determines that we can’t send you back to your home country, because the violence you were fleeing was so real and obvious that there’s a great chance you’ll be killed if you are returned.
The rational play would be to hold you here, in America, the country whose immigration laws you allegedly violated, but no, no, no, our government decides to send you to an entirely different place.
The Supreme Court decided to let Trump violate an international human rights treaty and send immigrants to places where they are likely to be tortured.
— ElieNYC (@elienyc.bsky.social) 2025-06-24T22:37:29.672Z
If this seems good to you, you are one of the bad guys.
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