A federal appeals court has rejected the Trump administration’s policy of rapidly deporting immigrants to third countries to which they have no connection. Friday’s ruling by a three-judge panel on the 1st Circuit Court of Appeals sets up a likely challenge at the Supreme Court. Since President Trump returned to office, his administration has sent ​more than 25,000 immigrants to at least 29 third countries. Trina Realmuto, a lawyer ​for the plaintiffs at the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, said, “This decision confirms that due process and the protections Congress enacted against persecution and ⁠torture cannot be circumvented by putting someone on a plane to a country that was never part of their removal proceedings.”