The Supreme Court ruled yesterday that the Trump administration can keep deporting people to countries they’ve never set foot in. No notice of where they’re going, no chance to argue. Just a one-way ticket to wherever some foreign government signed a blanket promise not to torture them. Twenty-five thousand people have already been processed this way since March 2025.
The lower courts called it unconstitutional. A federal judge said the bare minimum is telling someone where you’re sending them. The Supreme Court looked at that and said: actually, let’s let it keep happening while we think about it. Full arguments in December. Deportation flights today.
This is what a government looks like when it decides people are logistics. Parcels with no return address, shipped to a country that agreed to warehouse them sight unseen. The cruelty isn’t a side effect. It’s the system working exactly as designed.