The Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to resume deporting people to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show the harms they may face, reinforcing a policy used for rapid expulsions as part of his immigration crackdown. The justices granted the DOJ’s request to halt a Boston-based judge’s ruling that the Department of Homeland Security’s policy to remove migrants to so-called third countries is unlawful, while the administration appeals the matter to the supreme court. They also agreed to hear arguments in the dispute in December, with a formal ruling on policy to follow. Its three liberal justices dissented from the decision. Federal attorneys said the lower-court decision forced the cancellation of a deportation flight carrying about 70 people bound for three countries. The justices previously allowed the deportation flights, a core Trump administration policy, to temporarily continue when the case came before them last year. In another win for the administration, the supreme court subsequently lifted limits the judge had imposed to protect a group of men from being sent to South Sudan.
In an executive order today, Donald Trump called for 'artificial intelligence' to be renamed 'super intelligence.' The order directs executive departments and agencies to use the term in official correspondence, public communications, websites, reports, policy documents, and other materials. The term 'Super Intelligence' more appropriately captures the promise, potential, and rapidly advancing capabilities of these technologies. The president also announced a 32-day tour ahead of the midterm elections, saying he has been asked to speak at campaign events across the country, including at stops in Texas and Ohio this week. Pete Hegseth will reportedly announce additional 10% cuts to the number of generals and admirals serving in the military at an address at Quantico scheduled for tomorrow.
Federal prosecutors have charged a Venezuelan delivery driver shot by ICE agents in Texas this month with one count of assaulting, resisting and impeding a federal officer. Wilber Rafael Garcés Pérez, 28, was shot by federal immigration officers after a traffic stop in Texas on 20 September. As my colleague Emiliano Tahui Gomez reports, Garcés Pérez has spent the past nine days in detention with a bullet lodged in his back, after Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents failed to remove him from the country.