Trump Seeks Migrant Deportations to South Sudan

Despite a federal judge’s decision that migrants must be given a “meaningful opportunity” to object, the Trump administration on Tuesday asked the Supreme Court to permit swift deportations of migrants to countries other than their own, claiming that the administration was in violation of an order he entered last month in the cases of several men who were loaded onto a plane after being informed they were being sent to South Sudan, a violent African nation from which the majority do not originate. The order required that they be given an opportunity to demonstrate that they would be subject to torture if deported to a country other than their own.They have reportedly been detained in the U.S. military post in Djibouti, East Africa, after their plane reportedly touched down there on Wednesday.  The males must have access to legal representation and be given the opportunity to contest the government proposal, according to the ruling of U.S. District Court judge Brian E. Murphy in Boston.  The solicitor general, D. John Sauer, stated in the administration’s emergency motion that Judge Murphy had prevented “the government’s ability to remove some of the worst of the worst illegal aliens.”  Mr. Sauer clarified that deportations of migrants convicted of violent crimes are particularly difficult because their home nations frequently forbid their return. 
 

Source: The New York Times