The Supreme Court is considering, for a third time, whether to let the Trump administration resume 'third-country' deportations—removing migrants to nations with no connection to their case—while a legal fight over notice rights continues. Independent trackers estimate more than 25,000 people have been removed to third countries since January 2025, sent to between 29 and 35 nations under largely undisclosed agreements. A deportation flight carrying roughly 70 people from Alexandria, Louisiana was cancelled on September 23 after the 1st Circuit lifted a pause on a district court ruling requiring written notice and a chance to raise fear claims before removal. Lawyers for migrants describe consequences including two men deported to Equatorial Guinea who said police beat them and held them at gunpoint in a converted hotel detention facility, and Cuban nationals routed through Mexico left without money or documents.