AMERICANALMANAC (Sadie Smith) - First Circuit strikes down DHS third-country deportation policy, demands migrants get notice before removal
A federal appeals court has unanimously blocked the Department of Homeland Security from swiftly deporting immigrants to countries where they have no ties, a ruling that hands open-borders advocates a procedural win and could slow the administration's expanding deportation agreements with dozens of nations. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the […] The post First Circuit strikes down DHS third-country deportation policy, demands migrants get notice before removal appeared first on American Almanac .
A federal appeals court has unanimously blocked the Department of Homeland Security from swiftly deporting immigrants to countries where they have no ties, a ruling that hands open-borders advocates a procedural win and could slow the administration's expanding deportation agreements with dozens of nations. A three-judge panel of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit ruled Friday that immigrants facing removal to third countries must receive prior notice of their intended destination and a meaningful chance to challenge it. The decision dismantles a DHS policy that relied on "diplomatic assurances" from receiving nations to justify sending deportees to countries they had never set foot in, sometimes without telling them where…Open