The Supreme Court has allowed the government to quickly send migrants to other countries, even if those are not their home countries. This decision temporarily stops a rule that gave migrants the chance to challenge being sent away.

The high court didn't fully explain its decision in the short document. Justice Sonia Sotomayor and the other two liberal justices strongly disagreed, writing a very critical response.

Tricia McLaughlin, a spokesperson for the Department of Homeland Security, suggested that sending people who are not from the U.S. to other countries might start again soon. She said, "Prepare the planes for deportation," and called this decision "a win for the safety and security of people in America."

However, a judge decided that a flight meant to send people back to South Sudan would not leave immediately.

The immigrants on the May flight were from countries like Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cuba. They had committed serious crimes in the U.S., and immigration officials said they couldn't send them back to their home countries quickly.

Their lawyer, Trina Realmuto, who is the head of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, stated that if they are sent to South Sudan, they might be imprisoned, tortured, or even killed.

Judge Brian E. Murphy in Boston confirmed that his previous decision, which allowed the immigrants to share their concerns in court, is still active, even though they have been sent to a naval base in Djibouti.

This case is happening as President Trump's government is strongly enforcing immigration laws. They have also said they will deport millions of people who are in the U.S. without legal permission.

White House spokeswoman Abigail Jackson said that the President has the power, given by the Constitution and Congress, to make sure immigration laws are followed and to remove dangerous people from the country. She added that the Supreme Court's decision supports the President's right to remove illegal immigrants who have committed crimes, which helps make America safer.

In her 19-page disagreement, Sotomayor wrote that the court's decision puts thousands of people in danger of torture or death. She also said it helps the Trump administration win, even though they had not followed the lower court's previous order.

In her dissenting opinion, supported by Justices Elena Kagan and Ketanji Brown Jackson, she wrote that the government has shown, through its words and actions, that it believes it is not limited by law. It thinks it can deport anyone, anywhere, without telling them beforehand or giving them a chance to speak.

South Sudan, a young and very poor nation, has faced ongoing violence since it became independent from Sudan in 2011. Rising political problems in the country risk causing another civil war.

The Justice Department said in court papers that the government is thinking about the order to decide what to do next.

The Supreme Court has temporarily stopped an order from April by Murphy. This order allowed immigrants to argue that being sent to another country would put them in danger, even if they had already used all their legal options.

He found that sending people to South Sudan in May went against his orders. He told immigration authorities to let people talk about these problems with their lawyers. Immigration officials kept the migrants in a changed shipping container in Djibouti, where both the migrants and the officers guarding them had difficult conditions.

The government has made agreements with countries like Panama and Costa Rica to house immigrants. This is because some countries do not accept their own citizens who are sent back from the U.S. Sotomayor wrote that the migrants sent to South Sudan in May were only told about it less than 16 hours before they had to leave.

Murphy, who was appointed by President Biden, issued an order that did not prevent deportations to other countries. However, he determined that migrants must have a genuine opportunity to explain that they could face serious danger of torture if they are sent to another country.

In a similar case, the Trump administration had to bring back a gay man from Guatemala who was wrongly sent to Mexico. He said he was raped and extorted there. This was the first known person to be returned to the U.S. after being deported since Trump's second term began.

The judges faced a similar problem when Trump tried to send Venezuelans, who were accused of being gang members, to a well-known prison in El Salvador. These people had very little chance to argue against their deportation in court.

However, in that situation, the Supreme Court stopped deportations under an old wartime law. They said that immigrants must have enough time to make a legal appeal before they are sent away.

The court, which has mostly conservative judges, has supported Trump in other immigration cases, allowing his administration to end temporary legal protection for almost a million immigrants.