The U.S. Department of State has condemned the human rights conditions in South Sudan. I was stunned to learn that the Trump administration was deporting migrants to South Sudan!
The Associated Press reports that a federal judge ruled yesterday that U.S. officials must retain custody and control of migrants apparently removed to South Sudan in case because their removals were unlawful.
U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts issued the ruling after an emergency hearing. At the hearing, attorneys for migrants claimed that the Trump administration appears to have begun deporting people from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan — despite a court order restricting removals to other countries. Judge Murphy ordered U.S. officials to appear in court Wednesday “to identify the migrants impacted, address when and how they learned they would be removed to a third country, and what opportunity they were given to raise a claim that removal would cause them to fear for their safety. He also ruled that the government must provide information about the whereabouts of the migrants apparently already removed.”
