The president’s latest lawfare victory found the Supreme Court staying a Biden-appointed judge’s ruling on deportations, setting the stage for another impactful term.
“A bad day for criminal illegals and open borders activists alike.”
Between protesting outside detention facilities, doxxing federal law enforcement officials and ignoring the will of the vast majority of Americans in favor of election integrity, President Donald Trump’s second term has seen the left pull out all the stops to prioritize illegal aliens over citizens.
Tuesday, the administration landed another win against those litigious globalists, including a hearing before the bench, as the Supreme Court stayed a lower court ruling that deemed deportations to “third countries” as “illegal.”
“The application for stay presented to Justice Jackson and by her referred to the Court is granted … The application is also treated as a petition for a writ of certiorari, and the petition is granted,” read the brief ruling from the court, granting the stay on U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy of the District of Massachusetts’ ruling from February.
Now for the second time, SCOTUS just granted our stay in conducting all third-country removals of illegal aliens. Again, this is entirely lawful and a critical tool for immigration enforcement. Unlike the lower court, SCOTUS waited to hear from both sides before making the… https://t.co/xQWiKnxNzm pic.twitter.com/husJQ2nUSd
— Attorney General Todd Blanche (@AGToddBlanche) September 29, 2026
The ruling also gave instructions on questions to brief and argue for the December 2026 session as, unsurprisingly, Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson were all on record for denying the application for stay.
Within its application, the administration argued, “The order below also undermines our standing abroad. Finding third countries willing and able to accept aliens is a delicate diplomatic endeavor … By interjecting itself in that process, and potentially disrupting those carefully negotiated arrangements, the lower courts’ actions ‘will cause significant and irreparable harm to U.S. foreign policy.'”
The filing further contended, “The order’s open-ended terms also allow the district court to continually move the goalposts as to what compliance entails, as illustrated by its actions when enforcing similarly open-ended terms in the preliminary injunction.”
As was reported earlier this year, Murphy concluded in an 81-page ruling, “This case is about whether the Government may, without notice deport a person to the wrong country, or a country where he is likely to be persecuted, or tortured, thereby depriving that person of the opportunity to seek protections to which he would be undisputedly entitled.”
“The Department of Homeland Security has adopted a policy whereby it may take people and drop them off in parts unknown–in so-called ‘third countries’–and, ‘as long as the Department doesn’t already know that there’s someone standing there waiting to shoot … that’s fine.’ It is not fine, nor is it legal,” he went on while challengers claimed the ruling merely required ample notice and opportunity for illegal aliens to defend against deportations.
Addressing the perceived judicial activism that required high court intervention, White House senior deputy press secretary Lauren Bis told Fox News Digital, “For the third time in 18 months, the Supreme Court has been called upon to stay the same local district judge’s campaign to halt the Trump Administration from removing illegal aliens including many of the worst-of-the-worst criminals to countries willing to receive them.”
“The President will stop at nothing in his effort to make America safe again,” continued Bis. “Today’s ruling from the Supreme Court yet again affirms the lawfulness of the President’s homeland security agenda.”
Offering his own take on the ruling, DHS General Counsel James Percival reminded illegal aliens that a cash offer was still on the table to self-deport, “A bad day for criminal illegals and open borders activists alike. It’s not too late to get $3,000 and a flight home.”
In our second Supreme Court victory in less than a week, DHS’s third country removal policy is back in effect. A bad day for criminal illegals and open borders activists alike. It’s not too late to get $3,000 and a flight home. https://t.co/tBm76gYleG
— James Percival (@DHSGenCounsel) September 29, 2026
Native of Brooklyn, NY, Kevin Haggerty is a graduate of Hunter College where he studied Cultural Anthropology and Geography. An avid reader and truth seeker, he currently resides in Texas with his wife and their dog and, when he isn't researching current events and their impacts, you'll find him spending time with friends and family or working on his next novel.
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