Caribbean immigration advocates denounce SCOTUS for siding with Trump to resume third-country deportations

According to Caribbean Life, Caribbean immigration advocates in New York on Tuesday, Sept. 29, denounced the Supreme Court of the United States (SCOTUS) for siding with the Trump administration, allowing it to resume fast track deportations of Caribbean and other immigrants to third-party countries other than their countries of origin, while the legal challenge to the policy continues. SCOTUS also announced that it will hear oral arguments at the end of this year to determine its final ruling. The court’s order overturns lower courts’ findings that Caribbean and other immigrants have a constitutional right to “meaningful notice” and a hearing to object if they fear torture or persecution in the designated third country. “Every person who resides here deserves access to due process before being removed from the country they call home,” Murad Awawdeh, president and CEO of the New York Immigration Coalition (NYIC), an