The Trump administration deported eight migrants to South Sudan, in response to a Division of Homeland Safety official, after the administration needed to halt their deportation to a base in Djibouti.
“A district decide can not dictate the nationwide safety and international coverage of the USA of America,” Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin mentioned to ABC Information. “This Independence Day marks one other victory for the security and safety of the American individuals.”
The aircraft landed in South Sudan simply earlier than midnight EST on Friday.
The eight migrants, who DHS has alleged have critical prison convictions, have been the topic of a lawsuit that had halted their deportation to South Sudan and diverted them to a U.S. navy base in Djibouti.
On this Dec. 21, 2024, file picture, an aerial view of Djibouti, East Africa is proven.
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The circumstances on the base, in response to court docket filings, have been each difficult for the detainees and ICE officers who have been tasked with watching them.
The lawsuit made all of it the best way as much as the Supreme Court docket and the court docket dominated that the Trump administration was not sure by a decrease court docket order to maintain them at a navy facility in Djibouti.
In a 7-2 choice, the Supreme Court docket on Thursday clarified that the noncitizens the Trump administration moved to deport to South Sudan — and has since held briefly in Djibouti in authorized limbo — is just not sure by a decrease court docket order to maintain them there as authorized proceedings play out.
The choice is one other win for the Trump administration and its unprecedented effort to deport immigrants to nations with which they haven’t any ties and the place they could face mistreatment.
The Supreme Court docket in Washington, D.C., June 27, 2025.
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In an unsigned opinion, the Supreme Court docket defined that when it lifted judge-imposed due course of necessities for third-country removals final month the federal government can not be held to account for allegedly violating the necessities.
One of many attorneys representing the group of males referred to as their deportation to South Sudan “punitive and unconstitutional.”
“Due to the Supreme Court docket’s procedural ruling, these males have been denied a possibility to contest their deportations to South Sudan primarily based on their concern of torture or loss of life,” mentioned Trina Realmuto in a press release to ABC Information. “The U.S. State Division warns People towards all journey to South Sudan but deported these males there with none due course of. Make no mistake about it, these deportations have been punitive and unconstitutional.”
-ABC Information’ Laura Romero contributed to this report.
