The US Supreme Court on Tuesday let President Donald Trump's administration resume deporting migrants to countries other than their own, Reuters reports.

“The court granted the Justice Department's emergency request to put on hold Boston-based US District Judge Brian Murphy's ruling that the Department of Homeland Security's policy to remove migrants to so-called third countries is unlawful,” the report says.

The court also agreed to hear arguments in the dispute in December, with a formal ruling on the policy to follow.

The US Supreme Court has a 6-3 conservative majority. Its three liberal justices dissented from the decision to let the deportations immediately resume pending the final outcome of the litigation.

Murphy's ruling came in a class-action lawsuit filed by immigrant rights groups on behalf of migrants seeking to prevent the US government from sending them to third countries without notice and a chance to assert the harms they could face.

More than 25,000 migrants have been deported from the US to 29 countries under the policy implemented last year, according to a tally by human rights groups, with the vast majority going to Mexico.