The new order stays a ruling issued by a federal district court.
The Supreme Court on June 23 temporarily lifted a lower court order blocking the Trump administration from deporting illegal immigrants to so-called third countries to which they have no connection.
The unsigned order came in the case known as Department of Homeland Security v. D.V.D.
Three justices—Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson—dissented.
In an emergency application to the court, the federal government had argued that there is a “crisis of illegal immigration, in no small part because many aliens most deserving of removal are often the hardest to remove.”
The government has tried to speed up the deportation process “by removing aliens to third countries that have agreed to accept them.”
“Convincing third countries to accept some of the most undesirable aliens requires sensitive diplomacy, which involves negotiation and the balancing of other foreign-policy interests,” it stated
This is a developing story and will be updated.
