Key facts
- A federal appeals court rejected a Trump administration policy allowing for the rapid deportation of migrants to countries other than their own.
- The policy did not allow migrants a chance to raise concerns about their safety in third countries.
- The Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals largely upheld a February ruling by a lower-court judge.
- The lower-court judge had declared the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's policy unlawful.
BOSTON, Sept. 18 (Reuters) - A federal appeals court on Friday rejected a Trump administration policy that would have allowed for the rapid deportation of migrants to countries other than their own, without providing them a chance to raise concerns about their safety. A three-judge panel of the Boston-based 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals largely upheld a February ruling by a lower-court judge that declared the U.S. Department of Homeland Security's policy unlawful.