Civil organizations and migratory lawyers alerted “hazards” for immigrants after the ruling of the United States Supreme Court that recently authorized the government of President Donald Trump to follow, for now, with deportations to third countries.
The American Immigration Lawyers Association (AILA) questioned that the Court has “allowed the Trump administration to avoid its constitutional obligation to provide due process” to “non -citizens who face a deportation to countries with which they do not have a previous connection.”
This is “essentially a green light to have secret deportations, including countries that are considered dangerous,” said Jeff Joseph, president of the AILA, which groups more than 16,000 migratory lawyers.
America’s Voice (AV), which seeks a reform to regularize the 11 million undocumented in the United States, also criticized the Supreme Court for allowing the Trump administration to resume expulsions from immigrants to third countries, such as Sudan from the South and El Salvador.
He argued that this adds to other tactics of the massive deportations of the government, such as the deployment of immigration and customs service agents (ICE), which “without identification” are “violently stopping and deporting students, workers, members of the community and even US citizens.”
“Now they will not only be kidnapped from our streets, but they could be deported to dangerous third countries with impunity and without due process,” said Vanessa Cárdenas, executive director of America’s Voice.
The decision of the highest court also aroused international attention because it suspends the order of a federal judge who kept the deportation of 8 immigrants to South Sudan, including two Cubans and a Mexican.
Federal judge Brian Murphy, from Massachusetts, had determined last month that the Trump administration violated an order that prevented him from deporting the eight immigrants to a country where they can suffer torture without giving the opportunity to an adequate legal defense.
The plaintiffs in this case warned that they will persist in their defense of these migrants, who remain in a container in an American naval base in Yibuti.
“The ruling of the Supreme Court leaves thousands of people vulnerable to deportation to third countries where they could face torture or death, even if deportations are clearly illegal,” Leila Kang, defender in the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, who accompanies the case, commented in a statement.
US legislation stipulates that the government cannot deport immigrants to third countries where they could be at risk or suffer from torture.
But, to accelerate deportations, Washington looks for agreements with other countries to accept migrants expelled from the country regardless of their nationality, such as El Salvador.
