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New York Post
28-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Trump asks Supreme Court to halt judge's order blocking deportations of criminal migrants to South Sudan
The Trump administration petitioned the Supreme Court Tuesday to overturn a lower court order blocking deportations of criminal migrants to South Sudan, and other so-called 'third countries,' without adequate due process. 'This case addresses the government's ability to remove some of the worst of the worst illegal immigrants,' Solicitor General D. John Sauer wrote in the emergency appeal to the high court. 'The United States is facing a crisis of illegal immigration, in no small part because many aliens most deserving of removal are often the hardest to remove.' US District Judge Brian Murphy, an appointee of former President Joe Biden, blocked the Trump administration in March from deporting migrants to countries where they do not originate from – 'third countries' – without first offering the targets for deportation written notice and a chance to object to their removal. Advertisement 3 Murphy, a Biden-appointed judge, blocked the Trump administration from deporting migrants to third countries without adequate due process. Alliance for Justice Last week, Murphy determined that the administration 'unquestionably' violated his court order when it put eight migrants with violent criminal convictions onto a flight to war-torn South Sudan — and may have committed criminal contempt. 'This Court should stay the district court's injunction,' Sauer asked the Supreme Court. 'The Court should also enter an immediate administrative stay of the district court's injunction pending its consideration of this application.' Advertisement Sauer argued that securing third countries, such as South Sudan, to accept 'some of the most undesirable aliens' is a delicate process – which is being thwarted by lower courts. The process 'requires sensitive diplomacy, which involves negotiation and the balancing of other foreign-policy interests,' the solicitor general wrote, noting that 'until recently, those efforts were working.' 'Just last week, the government was in the process of removing a group of criminal aliens who had been in the country for years or decades after receiving final orders of removal, despite having committed horrific crimes,' Sauer continued. 'These aliens include one who was convicted of sexually abusing a child victim for the better part of a decade, beginning when the victim was seven years old. Another was convicted of sexually abusing a mentally handicapped woman with the mental capacity of a three-year-old. At least two others were convicted of murder.' 3 Only one of the eight migrants Trump attempted to deport to South Sudan was originally from the African nation. Advertisement 'All these aliens have already received extensive legal process. All were tried and convicted in a criminal court, with all the process and protections afforded to criminal defendants. All were adjudicated removable by an immigration judge. A single federal district court, however, has stalled these efforts nationwide.' Sauer further charged that Murphy's ruling usurps the president's 'authority over immigration policy' and 'disrupts sensitive diplomatic, foreign-policy, and national-security efforts.' In a separate filing, Secretary of State Marco Rubio and Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth warned Murphy on Friday that his order has already caused 'significant and irreparable' harm to US foreign policy. 3 Trump has expressed frustration with lower courts blocking his deportation plans. Getty Images Advertisement The eight migrants Murphy prevented the Trump administration from sending to South Sudan are currently being held in Djibouti, a small country on the Horn of Africa where the US has a military base. Murphy claims the men – whom the White House has described as 'monstrous and barbaric' – were not given a 'meaningful opportunity' to object that the deportation could put them in danger. Trump has cut deals with several third countries during his second term, including El Salvador, Costa Rica and Panama, to take in deported migrants that can't be sent back to their home countries.
New York Post
22-05-2025
- Politics
- New York Post
Biden-nominated judge rules Trump admin violated court order after deporting criminal migrants to South Sudan
The Trump administration 'unquestionably' violated a court order when it put eight migrants with violent criminal convictions onto a flight to South Sudan, a Biden-nominated federal judge ruled Wednesday. US District Judge Brian Murphy, who was nominated to the seat by former President Joe Biden in 2024, slammed the White House for failing to provide the men with adequate due process when ordering them on a flight bound to the African nation, of which only one of them is actually from. 'The department actions in this case are unquestionably in violation of this court's order,' the judge said in an emergency hearing, suggesting the White House may have committed criminal contempt. 5 (Clockwise from top left) Enrique Arias-Hierro, Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Quinones, Thongxay Nilakout, Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, Tuan Thanh Phan, Nyo Myint, Kyaw Mya, and Dian Peter Domach were all put on a flight to South Sudan. 5 US District Judge Brian Murphy said the White House clearly violated a court order when it ordered the men to be flown to the African nation. Alliance for Justice Murphy alleges that the eight immigrants were not given a 'meaningful opportunity' to object that the deportation could put them in danger in South Sudan, one of the world's most dangerous and war-torn nations suffering from food shortage, ethnic conflict and violent crime. While the White House touted that it had sent the 'monstrous and barbaric' immigrants to South Sudan, President Trump confirmed that the men are currently being held in Djibouti, a small country on the Horn of Africa where the US holds a military base. 'A Federal Judge in Boston, who knew absolutely nothing about the situation, or anything else, has ordered that EIGHT of the most violent criminals on Earth curtail their journey to South Sudan, and instead remain in Djibouti,' Trump said in a Truth Social post. 'He would not allow these monsters to proceed to their final destination.' 5 President Trump revealed that the migrants are currently being held in the African nation of Djibouti. / Homeland Security declined to say where exactly in the African country the men have ended up for 'safety and operational security' reasons. South Sudan officials, who did not consent to the deportations, also confirmed that no foreign migrants had arrived in the country. Maj. Gen. James Monday Enoka, the nation's police spokesman, said that any arrival would be investigated, with all foreign-born migrants set to be 're-deported to their correct country.' 5 DHS Assistant Secretary for Public Affairs Tricia McLaughlin slammed the judge's orders as 'deranged.' AP Attorney Jonathan Ryan — who represented one of the migrants, Nyo Myint, of Myanmar — said his client received two conflicting deportation notices a day before the flight, with both notices given to him in English, a language he barely understands. 'I have no idea where he is,' Ryan told the BBC. 'He's been disappeared by the United States government.' Myint was convicted of first-degree sexual assault involving a victim mentally and physically incapable of resisting in Lincoln, Nebraska. 5 South Sudan is one of the poorest and most violent nations in the world plagued by ethnic violence and looming civil war. AP The Trump administration has defended the deportations, with Tricia McLaughlin, the assistant secretary for DHS, mocking Murphy's order to reprocess the migrants as 'deranged.' '[Myint] sexually assaulted a mentally disabled woman with the mental capacity of a three-year-old,' she told The Post. 'This 'Lincoln man' is an ILLEGAL ALIEN and one of the monsters that the activist Massachusetts District Judge is trying to bring back to the United States after he was deported yesterday.' Todd Lyons, the acting director of Immigration and Customs Enforcement, added that the countries where the migrants were from — Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and South Sudan — refused to take the men back. Lyons maintains that the deported migrants represent 'true national security threats,' with the men previously convicted of rape, homicide, armed robbery and other violent crimes. With Post wires
