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Supreme Court maintains block on some Trump deportations of migrants

Demonstrators gather outside the Permanent Mission of El Salvador to the United Nations to protest the deportation of migrants without due process.

The Supreme Court on Friday kept a block on the Trump administration’s use of a rarely invoked wartime power to deport migrants in Northern Texas and said administration officials had not given those targeted for removal last month sufficient time to challenge their deportations.

 

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The justices called the detainees’ interests “particularly weighty” because of the risk of removal to a notorious megaprison in El Salvador where the migrants could face indefinite detention.

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