By Isabella Torregiani
2:04pm PDT, Jun 24, 2025
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The Supreme Court has ruled that President
Donald Trump's administration can continue deporting immigrants to third-party countries — not just their country of origin. However, the decision wasn't unanimous. Three liberal judges strongly opposed the ruling, calling it a "gross abuse" of the court's power.
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On Monday, June 23, the Court voted 6-3 to uphold President Donald Trump's policy allowing immigrants to be deported to any country willing to accept them — without prior warning. Justices
Sonia Sotomayor,
Elena Kagan and
Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented in a
19-page opinion warning the decision could put "thousands at risk of torture or death."
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The ruling overturns a lower court order that had required the government to give immigrants a chance to argue their deportation could lead to torture or death in the destination country. Justice Sonia Sotomayor wrote in the dissent, "The government has made clear in word and deed that it feels itself unconstrained by law, free to deport anyone anywhere without notice or an opportunity to be heard." She described the court's decision as "as incomprehensible as it is inexcusable." Notably, the majority did not issue a written explanation for the ruling.
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While some justices condemned the outcome, others, including the White House and Department of Homeland Security, celebrated the decision:
Tricia McLaughlin, a DHS spokesperson, posted
on X, "Fire up the deportation planes. … The SCOTUS ruling is a victory for the safety and security of the American people. The Biden Administration allowed millions of illegal aliens to flood our country, and, now, the Trump Administration can exercise its undisputed authority to remove these criminal illegal aliens and clean up this national security nightmare."
