US judge clears path for eight immigrants to be deported to South Sudan | US immigration

On Friday, eight migrants lost their last effort to stop their expulsion in South Sudan by the Trump administration, paving the way to their imminent transfer after a Massachusetts judge refused their request.

Lawyers of the Ministry of Justice said that men were to be transported by plane to South Sudan Friday at 7 p.m. after two courts examined the request in an emergency on July 4, when the courts were otherwise closed for independence holidays.

Migrant lawyers had made new complaints to Washington Thursday after the Supreme Court said that a Massachusetts judge could no longer force the US Department of Internal Security to hold them.

District Randolph District Judge in Washington briefly took an expulsion break on Friday afternoon, but referred the case to the American district judge Brian Murphy in Boston.

Murphy said that the ordinance of the Supreme Court had forced him to refuse their offer, affirming that their allegations according to which the expulsion was used as a form of punishment was “significantly similar” to those he had previously governed.

The order was the last round of the fight against the legality of the Trump administration campaign to dissuade immigration by high -level deportations to countries where migrants say they face security problems, and which have already gone from the courts lower than the Supreme Court twice.

The eight men awaiting deportation come from countries like Vietnam, South Korea, Mexico, Laos, Cuba and Myanmar. Only one comes from South Sudan. All were found guilty of serious crimes, which the Trump administration has underlined in the justification of their banishment. Many had finished or were about to finish service sentences, and had “dismissal orders” ordering them to leave the United States.

A men’s lawyer said they could “face perilous conditions” when they arrived in the country. South Sudan is entangled in civil war, and the US government advises that no one should travel there before taking its own funeral arrangements.

The administration has been trying to expel immigrants for weeks. The government stole them towards the American naval base in Djibouti but could not move them more because Murphy had judged that no immigrant could be sent to a new country without having a court in the court.

Jennie Pasquarella, a lawyer from the project of Clémence de Seattle who represents migrants, called the disappointing decision.

“The two decisions of the two courts refused them their possibility of making these statements heard and protecting their own lives,” she said. “This is what is so tragic in the place where we came out.”