A federal appeals court has drawn a new boundary around executive power, ruling that migrants facing deportation to countries other than their own must be given the opportunity to challenge such orders in court. The decision does not end the practice of third-country deportations, but it insists that the law must be present in the room when those decisions are made. At its heart, this is an old argument in American governance — how much silence must the individual accept before the machinery of the state — and the courts have once again refused to let that silence be total. The case now moves
Appeals Court Limits Trump Administration's Third-Country Deportation Policy
Migrants facing deportation to third countries are directly affected by this policy and court ruling.