{"id":2578749,"date":"2026-03-11T17:17:02","date_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:17:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appeals-court-allows-trump-to-continue-third-country-deportations\/"},"modified":"2026-03-11T17:18:45","modified_gmt":"2026-03-11T21:18:45","slug":"appeals-court-allows-trump-to-continue-third-country-deportations","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/appeals-court-allows-trump-to-continue-third-country-deportations\/","title":{"rendered":"Appeals court allows Trump to continue \u2018third country\u2019 deportations"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">18<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fappeals-court-allows-trump-to-continue-third-country-deportations%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=2578749&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>A Frist Circuit appeals panel temporarily allowed teh Trump administration to continue deporting illegal immigrants to third countries, blocking a lower court\u2019s ruling that had found the policy unlawful. The three-judge panel-two Biden appointees and one Bush appointee-granted an administrative stay of a February 25 order, indicating they will issue a fuller ruling soon. The decision preserves a key deportation tool for now, despite U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy\u2019s earlier finding that the policy was not legal. The Supreme Court had previously allowed the policy to continue on an interim basis, so Wednesday\u2019s stay represents a rare win for the administration in this circuit. If upheld on appeal, the policy would allow deportations to countries other than the migrants\u2019 country of origin while the case proceeds.  <\/p>\n<p class=\"readmore\">\n    <button onclick=\"showReadMore()\" id=\"readmorebtn\">Read more&#8230;<\/button>\n<\/p>\n<hr id=\"line\">\n<span id=\"more\"><\/p>\n<p><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><?xml encoding=\"utf-8\" ?><\/p>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-header-search-button-mob dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><span class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-button\"><i class=\"tdb-mobile-menu-icon td-icon-mobile\"><\/i><\/span><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search\" aria-labelledby=\"td-header-search-button\">\n<div class=\"tdb-drop-down-search-inner\">\n<form method=\"get\" class=\"tdb-search-form\" action=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/\"><\/form>\n<div class=\"tdb-aj-search\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/#\" role=\"button\" aria-label=\"Search\" class=\"tdb-head-search-btn dropdown-toggle\" data-toggle=\"dropdown\"><i class=\"tdb-search-icon td-icon-search\"><\/i><\/a><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<h1 class=\"tdb-title-text\">Appeals court allows Trump to continue &lsquo;third country&rsquo; deportations for now<\/h1>\n<div><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-title-line\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\">\n<div id=\"Brid_2528713\" class=\"tpd-featured-video bridtv\"><\/div>\n<p>A federal <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/appeals-courts\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"1537\">appeals court<\/a> allowed the <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/trump-administration\/\" type=\"post_tag\" id=\"339\">Trump administration<\/a> to continue deporting&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/tag\/illegal-immigrants\/\">illegal immigrants<\/a>&nbsp;to third countries, temporarily blocking a lower court&rsquo;s order that found the policy unlawful.<\/p>\n<p>A three-judge panel on the U.S. Court of Appeals for the First Circuit <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.ca1.53896\/gov.uscourts.ca1.53896.00108415865.0_3.pdf\" type=\"link\" id=\"https:\/\/storage.courtlistener.com\/recap\/gov.uscourts.ca1.53896\/gov.uscourts.ca1.53896.00108415865.0_3.pdf\">issued<\/a> an administrative stay of a Feb. 25 order that had blocked the policy, which was due to go into effect on Thursday. The panel of two judges appointed by former President Joe Biden and one judge appointed by former President George W. Bush did not elaborate on their reasoning beyond suggesting that &ldquo;after careful review,&rdquo; the temporary pause on the district court&rsquo;s ruling was necessary, adding that they intend to issue a full ruling on lifting the lower court&rsquo;s block soon.<\/p>\n<div class=\"recommended-stories\">\n<h2>Recommended Stories<\/h2>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4488754\/democrats-accuse-bondi-brother-obain-favorable-legal-case\/\">Democrats accuse Bondi of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/democrats-accuse-bondi-of-feeding-brother-favorable-legal-results\/\" title=\"Democrats accuse Bondi of feeding brother favorable legal results\">helping lawyer brother obtain favorable outcomes<\/a> in legal cases<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4487935\/epstein-accountant-richard-kahn-oversight-questions-closed-deposition\/\">Epstein accountant Richard Kahn faces House oversight committee questions in closed-door deposition<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/campaigns\/state\/4487312\/virginia-redistrict-ballot-could-still-nixed-voting-experts-say\/\">Virginia redistricting ballot measure could still be struck down after voting, experts say<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"article-paywall\">\n<p>The ruling means the Trump administration may continue to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/illegal-immigrants-guilty-of-dui-assault-will-not-be-deported-under-biden-plan\/\" title=\"Illegal Immigrants Guilty of DUI, Assault Will Not Be Deported Under Biden Plan\">deport illegal immigrants<\/a> to countries other than their country of origin, keeping a key tool for deportation in its arsenal.<\/p>\n<p>U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, a Biden appointee, <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4471956\/biden-judge-strikes-third-country-deportation-high-court-allowed\/\">said in his ruling <\/a>last month that the policy was &ldquo;not fine, nor is it legal,&rdquo; and struck down the ruling, even after the Supreme Court had twice allowed the policy to continue in the interim. Murphy paused his latest attempt to block third-country deportations for 15 days to allow for the Justice Department to appeal.<\/p>\n<p>The Supreme Court&nbsp;<a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/3451537\/supreme-court-trump-immigration-allowed-deport-third-countries\/\">previously lifted<\/a>&nbsp;Murphy&rsquo;s preliminary injunction blocking the third-country deportation policy in June 2025, issuing a 6-3 unsigned order that did not elaborate on the rationale behind the majority&rsquo;s decision. Shortly after the Supreme Court lifted the block, Murphy still tried to enforce another order that built off the one the justices lifted &mdash; this one blocking the deportation of eight criminal illegal immigrants to&nbsp;South Sudan. The high court&nbsp;quickly <a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/3462911\/supreme-court-backs-trump-bid-to-deport-criminals-to-south-sudan\/\">rebuked him<\/a>&nbsp;in a 7-2 unsigned order.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" href=\"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/news\/justice\/4471956\/biden-judge-strikes-third-country-deportation-high-court-allowed\/\" type=\"post\" id=\"4471956\">BIDEN JUDGE STRIKES DOWN &lsquo;THIRD COUNTRY&rsquo; DEPORTATIONS AFTER SUPREME COURT APPROVAL<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Murphy&rsquo;s Feb. 25 order was an attempt to issue a final ruling that superseded his preliminary injunction, but the case could still make its way to the Supreme Court once the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-seeks-quick-reversal-of-order-blocking-vax-mandate\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Seeks Quick Reversal of Order ... Vax Mandate\">appeals court issues<\/a> its full ruling.<\/p>\n<p>Wednesday&rsquo;s order marks a rare win for the Trump administration at the First Circuit, after the circuit had denied efforts to <a href=\"https:\/\/amzn.to\/3YuVZYV\" >lift high-profile blocks<\/a> of various Trump policies in the president&rsquo;s first year back in the White House. When the DOJ appealed those adverse First Circuit rulings to the Supreme Court&rsquo;s emergency docket, the majority on the high court ruled in the Trump administration&rsquo;s favor each time in 2025.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<div class=\"tdb-block-inner td-fix-index\"><\/div>\n<p><\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>First Circuit allows third-country deportations for now<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2638,"featured_media":2578750,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26019679335607.jpg?w=696","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[33651,538],"tags":[69805,8675,3813,75581,3634],"class_list":["post-2578749","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-western-journal","category-washington-examiner","tag-appeals-court-2","tag-deportations","tag-immigration","tag-third-country-deportations","tag-trump"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.washingtonexaminer.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/03\/AP26019679335607.jpg?w=696","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578749","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2638"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2578749"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578749\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2578753,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2578749\/revisions\/2578753"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2578750"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2578749"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2578749"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2578749"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}