Federal judge blocks deportation of migrants to South Sudan on July 4
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Friday, a federal judge interrupted the efforts of the Trump administration to expel eight migrants in South Sudan, the last case testing the legality of the Trump administration to send illegal immigrants to third countries.
US District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington made the decision on July 4 to give migrants time to compete for a Massachusetts court.
The eight men, who are from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Burma, Sudan and Vietnam, argue that their deportations to South Sudan would violate the Constitution, which prohibits the “cruel and unusual” punishment, reported Reuters. They were found guilty of various crimes, including four convicted of murder, said the Ministry of Internal Security.
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Illegal migrants align on a military plane to return to Ecuador. Friday, a federal judge interrupted the efforts of the Trump administration to send eight migrants to South Sudan. (Fox News)
They were detained for six weeks at a military base in Djibouti instead of being brought back to the United States.
Migrants made new complaints on Thursday, after the Supreme Court said that a Federal Judge of Boston could no longer force the Ministry of Internal Security to hold them, Reuters reported.
Fox News Digital contacted the White House.
The order of Friday prevents the US government from moving men until 4:30 p.m. he. They had to be withdrawn to South Sudan during a flight at 7 p.m.
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During the hearing on Friday, a government lawyer argued that the orders of the court interrupting the agreed deportations pose a serious problem for American diplomatic relations and would make foreign countries less likely to accept transfers of migrants in the future.
The case is the last development on the legality of the Trump administration campaign to dissuade immigration by sending migrants to places other than their countries of origin in accordance with other countries, according to Reuters.
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“It seems almost obvious to me that the American government cannot take human beings and send them in circumstances in which their physical well-being is simply at risk of punishing them or sending a signal to others,” Moss said at the hearing.
