Judge blocks immigrants’ deportation to South Sudan one day after Supreme Court clears the way

On Friday, a federal judge temporarily interrupted the deportations of eight immigrants in South Sudan torn by the war the day after the Supreme Court, he shed light on their dismissal, affirming that the new allegations of the lawyers for immigrants were deserved a hearing.

The district judge, Randolph Moss, proceeded to the extraordinary hearing of July 4 in July Friday afternoon, ordering the Trump administration to determine whether a decision of the previous Supreme Court according to which the immigrants provided for a referral under an act of war of the 18th century invoked by President Donald Trump also deserve to apply to those who should be referred to South Sudan.

The administration has been trying to expel immigrants for weeks. None of South Sudan, which is tangled in civil war and where the American government advises that no one should travel before taking its own funeral arrangements. The government made them advance to Djibouti but could not move them further because a Massachusetts court had judged that no immigrant could be sent to a new country without a chance to have a court hearing.

The Supreme Court canceled this decision last month, then Thursday evening made a new order specifying that this meant that immigrants could be moved to South Sudan. The lawyers of immigrants, from Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and other countries, submitted an emergency request to interrupt their dismissal later in the night.

The case was assigned to Moss, who issued his order to let the government react and “to give time to an audience”. This audience occurred on Friday afternoon.

The temporary stay was reported for the first time by the legal journalist Chris Geidner.