With six votes in favor and three against, the justices overturned a lower court order requiring the government to provide migrants a “significant opportunity” to inform authorities about the risks they might face if deported to a third country.

The court’s three liberal justices issued a lengthy dissent arguing that the majority ruling “rewarded lawlessness.”

The government will now be able to send the migrants to a U.S. military base in Djibouti or South Sudan.

The case arose from an April order by Boston-based U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy halting deportations of migrants to third countries.

The judge said those migrants had a right to due process, including notification of their destination and the opportunity to argue that they were at risk of torture or murder if sent to those countries.

The judge later declared that a deportation flight to South Sudan had violated his order.

The deportation included eight migrants from Myanmar, South Sudan, Cuba, Mexico, Laos and Vietnam, sent on a plane supposedly bound for that African country, a country rife with violence and where most of them had never set foot.

The flight, however, landed in Djibouti, where there is a U.S. military base. The men have been held there ever since.

Although Judge Murphy’s order applied to many migrants, public attention since then has been focused on those eight men, who had been described by the Trump administration as “the worst of the worst.”

The Supreme Court’s decision temporarily blocks Judge Murphy’s order.

In its dissent,Justices Sonia Sotomayor, Elena Kagan, and Ketanji Brown Jackson criticized the majority ruling, calling it a “grave abuse.” “The court apparently finds the idea of ??thousands of people suffering violence in faraway places more palatable than the remote possibility that a district court exceeded its remedial powers when it ordered the government to provide the notice and process to which plaintiffs are constitutionally and statutorily entitled,” Sotomayor wrote. “Such an exercise of discretion is as incomprehensible as it is inexcusable,” she added. The single-paragraph, unsigned statement from the Supreme Court’s conservative majority does not explain its reasons for pausing Murphy’s decision. The court’s ruling Monday represents another victory for President Trump in his pursuit of mass deportations. The Department of Homeland Security said the ruling was “a victory for the safety of the people.” American.”

“Let the deportation planes fire up!” said agency spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin.

The Trump administration claimed the eight migrants linked to the case had committed “heinous crimes” in the United States, including murder, arson, and armed robbery.

However, lawyers for the migrants testified before the Supreme Court that many of those detained had no criminal records.

The National Immigration Litigation Alliance, which represents the plaintiffs, called the court ruling “horrendous.”

Its executive director, Trina Realmuto, said the decision exposes her clients to “torture and death.”

Shortly after the ruling, lawyers for the migrants filed an emergency motion with Judge Murphy requesting that he continue blocking the deportations.

In a brief order issued Monday night, the judge indicated that the migrants in Djibouti are currently protected from immediate removal due to a separate ruling issued by the news.

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