Judge says deportations to South Sudan violate court order
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The men who were placed on a deportation flight headed for the chaotic nation of South Sudan were originally from countries as far away as Vietnam.
A judge ordered the Trump administration to maintain custody of the migrants, whose lawyers say they were on a flight bound for violence-plagued South Sudan.
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Eight people from Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, Mexico and South Sudan were on a flight reportedly intended for South Sudan this week.
A federal judge in Boston has told the Trump administration it must to maintain custody of migrants whom the US government has allegedly flown to South Sudan or other countries in recent days amid heightened concerns over the administration’s aggressive approach to deportations.
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A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that U.S. officials must retain custody and control of migrants apparently removed to South Sudan in case he orders their removals were unlawful.
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The Trump administration violated a previous court order when it deported at least six migrants to South Sudan, a federal judge ruled Wednesday.
Lawyers for the immigrants, who aren’t from South Sudan, contend the deportations violate a court order after a previous attempt to send some people to Libya.
The Trump administration has reportedly started deporting individuals from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan in apparent violation of a federal court order prohibiting such transfers, according to court filings submitted by immigration attorneys. Ethical issues arise from sending non-natives to an unsafe region.
Lawyers for the migrants say they were given abrupt notice regarding their clients’ removal to South Sudan, a war-torn nation facing a hunger crisis.
The Trump administration “unquestionably” violated a court order when it tried to transfer detainees to war-torn South Sudan without a meaningful opportunity to contest their removal to a place where they might face torture,
South Sudan's President Salva Kiir has reshuffled the senior leadership in the ruling party, according to an official decree, as the country faces fresh fighting between rival armed factions and widespread speculation about Kiir's succession plans.