The Department of Homeland Security asked the Supreme Court on June 24 to clarify its emergency order from the day before that temporarily allowed the government to deport illegal immigrants to third countries to which they have no connection.
In the new filing in the case known as Department of Homeland Security (DHS) v. D.V.D, the DHS said it was not clear whether the brief order the high court issued on June 23 covered eight men that DHS intends to remove to South Sudan.
In a prior filing in May, the DHS recounted a federal district court’s preliminary injunction on April 18 that it said blocked DHS “from exercising its undisputed statutory authority to remove an alien to a country not specifically identified in his removal order (i.e., a ‘third country’), unless DHS first satisfies an onerous set of procedures invented by the district court to assess any potential claim under the Convention Against Torture (CAT) … no matter how facially implausible.”…