The Supreme Court has bluntly instructed a Biden-appointed federal district judge in Boston that it meant what it said when it vacated his attempt to write new immigration law under the guise of issuing an injunction against the Trump administration deportation of criminal aliens to “third countries.”
I wrote about the case last weekend. In this context, the term “third countries” refers to countries that removable aliens have neither asked to be deported to nor had prior ties of citizenship, nationality, birthright, residence, or travel. Congress’s immigration laws unambiguously provide that, if deportation to a country to which an alien wishes to be sent or has such prior ties is not practicable (because, for example, such countries refuse to accept the alien or there are fears of persecution), the government may deport to any country that will accept the alien.
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