{"text":[[{"start":7.736,"text":"The US Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to revive its policy of deporting non-citizens to third countries for the time being and agreed to make a permanent ruling on the case in the upcoming term."}],[{"start":18.52,"text":"In a terse order on Tuesday, the justices temporarily halted a federal judge’s order barring the removals until deportees were given the opportunity to challenge such a move."}],[{"start":28.16,"text":"The court also said it would take the case up on the merits and hear arguments in December."}],[{"start":33.76,"text":"President Donald Trump issued an executive order on his first day back in the White House that instructed the US Department of Homeland Security to take “all appropriate actions” to deport non-citizens who remained in the US after being ordered to leave."}],[{"start":47.647,"text":"US Immigration and Customs Enforcement was subsequently asked to determine the viability of sending the non-citizens to a country where they had no ties, particularly if fears they would be tortured upon return to their home nation had impeded deportation."}],[{"start":63.416,"text":"Solicitor-general D John Sauer had argued that the lower courts deprived the Trump administration of “an essential tool to remove certain aliens, including some of the worst criminal aliens”."}],[{"start":73.12,"text":"An earlier district court’s order forced the administration to cancel a flight carrying 70 non-citizens with criminal convictions to three separate countries and sparked a new round of diplomatic engagement with the nations, he said."}],[{"start":85.84,"text":"“Finding third countries willing and able to accept aliens is a delicate diplomatic endeavour,” Sauer said. “By interjecting itself in that process, and potentially disrupting those carefully negotiated arrangements, the lower courts’ actions ‘will cause significant and irreparable harm to US foreign policy.’”"}],[{"start":104.04,"text":"Lawyers for the non-citizens had countered, arguing that District Judge Brian Murphy’s order blocking the deportations without proper notice did not require the government to release the individuals from detention or bar third-country removals in full."}],[{"start":117.34,"text":"They said non-citizens removed without meaningful notice had faced extensive detention, assault or disappearance."}],[{"start":123.8,"text":"“These harms cannot be undone,” the lawyers wrote."}],[{"start":127.54,"text":"The legal battle over third-country removals has reached the high court twice before. Both times, the justices sided with the Trump administration."}],[{"start":135.24,"text":"Tuesday’s order stems from Murphy’s final judgment, which sided with the immigrants. A federal appeals court mostly upheld that decision earlier this month."}],[{"start":144.12,"text":"The Supreme Court has asked the parties to address the legality of the Trump administration’s policy and whether the district court exceeded its authority to hear the non-citizens’ claims and issue class-wide relief."}],[{"start":160.4,"text":""}]],"url":"https://audio.ftcn.net.cn/album/a_1790739994_4756.mp3"}