A federal judge’s decision to block deportations to countries other than those of the affected individuals has suspended a key Trump-era immigration enforcement policy, raising legal uncertainty. The ruling has left officials scrambling, with the administration filing an emergency appeal to the Supreme Court to reinstate the measure. Legal experts say the dispute could reshape how deportation cases are handled in the near term. The outcome of the Supreme Court’s intervention will determine whether the policy remains suspended or is restored.
A ruling to halt deportations of people to countries other than their own threw a core immigration policy of the Trump administration into question, at least temporarily, and prompted a desperate appeal to the Supreme Court on Thursday.
