June 23, 2025

Contact: media@haitianbridge.org

SAN DIEGO, CA— Today’s 6–3 United States Supreme Court ruling stripping migrants of due process and reviving “third-country deportations” is nothing short of an atrocity. By allowing the Trump administration to deport people to countries where they risk torture or death—in direct violation of both U.S. law and the UN Convention Against Torture—the Court has sanctioned state‐sponsored violence on marginalized communities.

This decision affects thousands of people currently in the U.S. deportation pipeline, and has immediate consequences for hundreds more already en route. Just this May, eight migrants— hailing from Myanmar, Vietnam, and Cuba—were flown to war-torn South Sudan, only to be held in shipping-container camps on a U.S. naval base in Djibouti. Justice Sotomayor’s dissent explicitly warns that this ruling “exposes thousands to the risk of torture or death” .

“This is a moral abdication. By granting blanket power to deport individuals without hearings or basic protections, the Supreme Court has made itself complicit in human rights atrocities,” said Guerline Jozef, Executive Director of Haitian Bridge Alliance. “Our communities—we’re talking about mothers, fathers, survivors—now face expulsion not to their countries of origin — although many cannot return due to humanitarian crises caused by natural disasters, dire insecurity challenges, and failed U.S. foreign policy, and persecution, but to places where torture is routine. Today’s decision rips away hope and dignity from thousands of families already living in fear. We will continue to sue, to protest, to organize until every person’s legal and human rights are restored.”

Thousands of migrants will now be stripped of the opportunity to challenge their deportations before being sent to countries where they may face violence, persecution, or death. This Supreme Court ruling is part of a broader pattern of systemic erosion: the Court has already invalidated protections for more than 500,000  Haitian, Cuban, Nicaraguan, and Venezuelan nationals under the Biden-era parole programs, placing nearly one million people at immediate risk of deportation and family separation.

Haitian Bridge Alliance urgently calls for (1) an immediate moratorium on all deportations to third countries; (2) swift congressional action to codify humane due process protections for all migrants, regardless of origin; and (3) nationwide mobilization—our communities must raise their voices, contact their senators, flood the DHS comment lines, and take to the streets to defend the rights and lives of those under threat.

This is not a legal technicality—it’s a full-scale human rights crisis. Haitian Bridge Alliance stands ready to challenge this decision in the streets and the courts until justice is restored.

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ABOUT HAITIAN BRIDGE ALLIANCE

Haitian Bridge Alliance (HBA), also known as “The Bridge”, is a grassroots community organization that advocates for fair and humane immigration policies, foreign policy, and provides migrants and immigrants with humanitarian, legal, and social services, with a particular focus on Black migrants, the Haitian community, women and girls, LGBTQIA+ individuals, and survivors of torture and other human rights abuses. HBA also seeks to elevate the issues unique to Black migrants and builds solidarity and collective movement toward policy change. Anpil men chay pa lou (“Many hands make the load light”). Follow us on Twitter, Instagram, and Facebook: @haitianbridge