U.S. Supreme Court allows Trump to restart swift deportation of migrants away from their home countries
The High Court's action came after immigration officials put eight people on a plane to South Sudan in May, a move that U.S. District Judge Brian E Murphy in Boston found violated his order.
The migrants from countries including Myanmar, Vietnam and Cuba had been convicted of serious crimes in the U.S. and immigration officials have said that they were unable to return them quickly to their home countries.
Authorities instead landed the plane at a U.S. naval base in Djibouti, where the migrants were housed in a converted shipping container and the officers guarding them faced rough conditions even as immigration attorneys waited for word from their clients.
The case comes amid a sweeping immigration crackdown by Republican President Donald Trump's administration, which has pledged to deport millions of people who are living in the United States illegally.
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