The Trump administration has asked the U.S. Supreme Court to overturn a federal appeals court ruling that halted its policy of deporting migrants to countries other than their homelands, after the decision forced the last-minute cancellation of a flight carrying 70 people to Burundi, Rwanda, and the Central African Republic. The 1st U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals (a federal appellate court covering the northeastern United States) clarified its earlier order late Wednesday, ruling that migrants must have a meaningful opportunity to object if a deportation would expose them to persecution or torture in a third country. The administration, which has used often-secret agreements to send thousands of deportees to more than two dozen nations, says the ruling creates cascading delays and undermines a key tool in its sweeping immigration crackdown — one that human rights advocates argue has already led to serious abuses, including reports of two men beaten and held at gunpoint after being sent to Equatorial Guinea.