Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) is the U.S. agency now driving mass deportations under Trump’s aggressive immigration agenda.

Operating under the Department of Homeland Security, ICE arrests, detains, and deports undocumented migrants. It oversees deportation flights, manages detention centers, holds unchecked power to remove people to dangerous third countries without giving them a chance to plead their case.

The U.S. Supreme Court has cleared the way for President Donald Trump to deport migrants to countries that aren’t even their own countries, without giving them the opportunity to explain the danger they might face. The ruling lifts a judicial order that had previously forced ICE and Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to at least give detainees a hearing before removing them to “third countries.”

Justice Sonia Sotomayor, joined by Justices Kagan and Jackson, called it a “gross abuse” of judicial authority. “Apparently, the court finds the idea that thousands will suffer violence in far-flung locales more palatable than the remote possibility that a district court exceeded its remedial powers,” she wrote.

The ruling allows the administration to resume deportations that had been temporarily halted, including to South Sudan, Guantanamo Bay, and El Salvador. U.S. officials have also discussed deporting migrants to Libya, a country the U.S. itself has condemned for torture and unlawful detention.

White House spokesperson Abigail Jackson praised the decision as a “reaffirmation” of Trump’s authority to “remove criminal illegal aliens from our country and Make America Safe Again.” DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin declared, “Fire up the deportation planes.”

ICE now moves with fewer restrictions than ever; detaining, transferring, and deporting migrants not just to their countries of origin, but to any foreign government willing to take them. The right to be heard is gone. The court has signed off.