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STORY: The U.S. Supreme Court cleared the way on Monday for President Donald Trump's administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own without offering them a chance to show harms they could face, handing him another victory in his aggressive pursuit of mass deportations.

The justices lifted a judicial order that required the government to give migrants set for deportation to so-called "third countries" a "meaningful opportunity" to tell officials they are at risk of torture at their new destination, while a legal challenge plays out. Boston-based U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy had issued the order on April 18.

The brief order was unsigned and came with no reasoning, as is common when the court decides emergency requests.

In a sharply worded dissent, Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by the court's two other liberal justices, criticized the majority's decision, calling it a "gross abuse" of the court's discretion.

After the Department of Homeland Security moved in February to step up rapid deportations to third countries, immigrant rights groups filed a class action lawsuit on behalf of a group of migrants seeking to prevent their removal to such places without notice and a chance to assert the harms they could face.

Reuters also reported that officials had been considering sending migrants to Libya, another politically unstable country, despite previous U.S. condemnation of Libya's harsh treatment of detainees. Murphy clarified that any removals without offering a chance to object would violate his order.

The dispute is the latest of many cases involving legal challenges to various Trump policies including immigration to have already reached the nation's highest judicial body since he returned to office in January.

The Supreme Court in May let Trump end humanitarian programs for hundreds of thousands of migrants to live and work in the United States temporarily. The justices, however, in April faulted the administration's treatment of some targeted migrants as inadequate under U.S. Constitution's due process protections.

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VIDEO SHOWS: VARIOUS FILE FOOTAGE RELATED TO SUPREME COURT AND TRUMP ADMINISTRATION AND MIGRANTS

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1. EXTERIOR OF U.S. SUPREME COURT

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2. U.S. SUPREME COURT GROUP PHOTO / GRADUAL ZOOM IN - SEATED (LEFT TO RIGHT): JUSTICES SONIA SOTOMAYOR AND CLARENCE THOMAS, CHIEF JUSTICE JOHN G. ROBERTS JR., JUSTICES SAMUEL A. ALITO JR. AND ELENA KAGAN - STANDING (LEFT TO RIGHT): JUSTICES AMY CONEY BARRETT, NEIL M. GORSUCH, BRETT M. KAVANAUGH AND KETANJI BROWN JACKSON

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3. (MUTE) VARIOUS AERIAL VIEWS OF OF VEHICLES CARRYING ALLEGED MEMBERS OF TREN DE ARAGUA ARRIVING TO CECOT PRISON

4. POLICE ESCORTING HANDCUFFED AND CHAINED ALLEGED TREN DE ARAGUA MEMBER

5. VARIOUS OF POLICE TAKING CHAINS AND HANDCUFFS OFF ALLEGED TREN DE ARAGUA MEMBERS

6. VARIOUS OF POLICE WALKING WITH ALLEGED TREN DE ARAGUA MEMBER

7. ARMORED VEHICLE ARRIVING AT CECOT

8. ARMY TAKING ALLEGED TREN DE ARAGUA GANG MEMBER OUT OF VEHICLE AND SHAVING HIS HEAD (MUTE)

9. MAN HAVING HIS HEAD SHAVED (MUTE)

10. MAN HAVING HEAD SHAVED

11. VARIOUS OF POLICE ESCORTING HANDCUFFED AND CHAINED ALLEGED TREN DE ARAGUA MEMBER

12. MEN IN PRISON WITH SHAVED HEADS AND HANDS ON THEIR NECKS

13. PAN OF PRISONERS SEATED ON GROUND (MUTE)

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14. U.S. HOMELAND SECURITY SECRETARY KRISTI NOEM TOURING MEGA-PRISON ALONG WITH EL SALVADOR MINISTER OF JUSTICE AND PUBLIC SECURITY, GUSTAVO VILLATORO FUNES

15. PAN FROM PRISON CELL TO NOEM AND VILLATORO LOOKING AT DETAINEES INSIDE CELL

16. NOEM LISTENING

17. NOEM LOOKING AT PRISONERS IN CELL

18. NOEM RECORDING VIDEO IN FRONT OF CELL

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19. STILL PHOTOGRAPH OF NOEM SPEAKING AS PRISONERS STAND LOOKING OUT FROM A CELL

20. STILL PHOTOGRAPH OF NOEM TOURING PRISON

21. STILL PHOTOGRAPH OF NOEM LOOKING AT DETAINEES STANDING AGAINST WALL

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22. VARIOUS OF VENEZUELAN MIGRANTS AND DEPORTEES GATHERING OUTSIDE VENEZUELAN EMBASSY SEEKING HELP TO RETURN TO THEIR HOMELAND

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23. PLANE MOVING ON TARMAC