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Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Judge orders Trump admin. to maintain custody of migrants deported to South Sudan
May 21 (UPI) -- A federal judge late Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to maintain custody of migrants being deported to South Sudan and other third-party countries in case the court finds their removal illegal and directs that they be returned to the United States. Judge Brian Murphy issued his order in response to an emergency request filed Tuesday by lawyers who stated they have evidence that a Myanmar client, identified by the initials N.M., and a Vietnamese client, identified as T.T.P., were being deported to South Sudan in violation of a court order, with other migrants potentially facing the same situation. In response, Murphy, a President Joe Biden appointee, said the court will allow the government to determine how it complies with the order but expects "that class members will be treated humanely." He also ordered the Trump administration to disclose during Wednesday's prescheduled hearing the time and manner of each migrant's notice of removal to a third country and what opportunity each had to raise fear-based claims against their removal. Concerning N.M. the government must address the details of his removal, including when and where he was removed, as well as the names of those personally involved in his deportation and "any information currently in defendant's possession regarding his current whereabouts." The ruling comes as part of a sprawling class action lawsuit filed in March challenging the Trump administration's policy of sending migrants to third countries without prior notice or an opportunity to contest their removal on the basis of fear of persecution, torture or death if removed from the United States. In mid-April, Murphy issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the government from deporting migrants to a third country without notice and an opportunity to contest their removal. Lawyers for the migrants on Tuesday accused the Trump administration in their filing of boarding N.M., T.T.P. and other migrants onto a plane for removal to South Sudan in violation of the preliminary injunction. The filing states the government failed to provide both N.M. and T.T.P. with the opportunity to apply for U.N. Convention Against Torture protection with regard to South Sudan. The lawyers argue that their motion should not have been necessary -- just as a filing from two weeks ago should not have been required when they asked for and received an order from Murphy warning the Trump administration against similarly deporting migrants to Libya amid reports stating it was planning to do just that. In his early May order, Murphy wrote: "If there is any doubt -- the Court sees none -- the allegedly imminent removals, as reported by news agencies and as Plaintiffs seek to corroborate with class-member accounts and public information would clearly violate this Court's Order."
UPI
21-05-2025
- Politics
- UPI
Judge orders Trump admin. to maintain custody of migrants deported to South Sudan
A federal judge late Tuesday ordered the Trump administration's Department of Homeland Security, under Secretary Kristi Noem, to maintain custody of migrants deported to South Sudan in case their removals were illegal. File Photo by Anna Rose Layden/UPI | License Photo May 21 (UPI) -- A federal judge late Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to maintain custody of migrants being deported to South Sudan and other third-party countries in case the court finds their removal illegal and directs that they be returned to the United States. Judge Brian Murphy issued his order in response to an emergency request filed Tuesday by lawyers who stated they have evidence that a Myanmar client, identified by the initials N.M., and a Vietnamese client, identified as T.T.P., were being deported to South Sudan in violation of a court order, with other migrants potentially facing the same situation. In response, Murphy, a President Joe Biden appointee, said the court will allow the government to determine how it complies with the order but expects "that class members will be treated humanely." He also ordered the Trump administration to disclose during Wednesday's prescheduled hearing the time and manner of each migrant's notice of removal to a third country and what opportunity each had to raise fear-based claims against their removal. Concerning N.M. the government must address the details of his removal, including when and where he was removed, as well as the names of those personally involved in his deportation and "any information currently in defendant's possession regarding his current whereabouts." The ruling comes as part of a sprawling class action lawsuit filed in March challenging the Trump administration's policy of sending migrants to third countries without prior notice or an opportunity to contest their removal on the basis of fear of persecution, torture or death if removed from the United States. In mid-April, Murphy issued a preliminary injunction prohibiting the government from deporting migrants to a third country without notice and an opportunity to contest their removal. Lawyers for the migrants on Tuesday accused the Trump administration in their filing of boarding N.M., T.T.P. and other migrants onto a plane for removal to South Sudan in violation of the preliminary injunction. The filing states the government failed to provide both N.M. and T.T.P. with the opportunity to apply for U.N. Convention Against Torture protection with regard to South Sudan. The lawyers argue that their motion should not have been necessary -- just as a filing from two weeks ago should not have been required when they asked for and received an order from Murphy warning the Trump administration against similarly deporting migrants to Libya amid reports stating it was planning to do just that. In his early May order, Murphy wrote: "If there is any doubt -- the Court sees none -- the allegedly imminent removals, as reported by news agencies and as Plaintiffs seek to corroborate with class-member accounts and public information would clearly violate this Court's Order."
Business Insider
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Business Insider
The U.S deports a dozen Asians to South Sudan
Recent reports indicate that, based on a court filing on Tuesday by a court in the United States, 12 South Asian migrants are to be deported to South Sudan. As a result, US immigration officers have begun enforcing the decree. A U.S. court ruled on the deportation of 12 South Asian migrants to South Sudan, causing significant concern. The deportations conflict with an earlier legal ruling protecting migrants' rights to adequate due process. The presence of ongoing civil strife and human rights violations in South Sudan raises safety issues for deportees. An email from a detention officer revealed that a Burmese national, simply referred to as "N.M.," was " South Sudan." The move has been met with criticism as some lawyers contend that it goes against a previous ruling, relating to an emergency motion on May 7 following news of impending deportations to Saudi Arabia and Libya. Immigration attorneys mentioned this in a petition they filed with the court, requesting that it intervene and return the migrants. The emergency filing to the federal district court in Massachusetts mentioned that the move also violated an order granted by U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy, who prohibited the Trump administration from deporting migrants to third countries without providing them with essential due process rights. Alongside 10 other migrants, a Vietnamese national identified as 'T.T.P.' seemed to have endured "the same fate" N.M did, as reported by France 24. As reported by the media, immigration officers were looking to deport N.M. and others to Saudi Arabia and Libya. The attorneys maintained that the deportation is a violation of an earlier order that they had made on the 7th of May. The court had sided with plaintiffs, and "the men were ultimately transported back to an immigration detention center after remaining on a bus on the base's tarmac for three or four hours," the filing said. A botched cease-fire in South Sudan fell apart last week, per the complaint, as the lawyers emphasized that the migrants were being flown "into a country that is now returning to full-blown and catastrophic civil war." The attorneys relayed to a federal judge that any migrant sent to South Sudan "faces a strong likelihood of irreparable harm," considering accounts of pervasive war, brutality, and human rights abuses in the East African country. The United States has not officially acknowledged an attempt to deport non-South Sudanese migrants to that nation. Representatives from the Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to calls for comment. South Sudanese war
France 24
21-05-2025
- Politics
- France 24
US officials deport Asian migrants to South Sudan despite court order
US immigration officials have begun deporting about 12 South Asian migrants to South Sudan, according to a Tuesday court filing and media reports. Immigration lawyers learned from a detention officer's email that a Burmese national, identified as "N.M." was " South Sudan," they wrote in a filing seeking the court's intervention and the return of the migrants. A second migrant, a Vietnamese national identified as T.T.P. in the filing, "appears to have suffered the same fate" along with at least 10 others. The removal violates an earlier order, the lawyers said, noting they had last filed an emergency motion on May 7, after media reports indicated immigration officials were seeking to deport N.M. and others to Libya and Saudia Arabia. The court had sided with plaintiffs and "the men were ultimately transported back to an immigration detention center after remaining on a bus on the base's tarmac for three or four hours," the filing said. The filing also noted that a flawed peace deal in South Sudan collapsed this week, and N.M. is being flown "into a country that is now returning to full-blown and catastrophic civil war." The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment. In early April, the Trump administration banned visas for South Sudanese nationals, as part of Presidend Donald Trump's ever-broadening anti- immigration platform. The Republican president has said the United States faces an "invasion" by "foreign criminals." In February, Trump invoked rarely used wartime legislation to fly some 250 Venezuelan migrants to El Salvador without any court hearings, alleging they belonged to the Tren de Aragua gang, a charge that their families and lawyers deny.
Yahoo
21-05-2025
- Politics
- Yahoo
Trump Allegedly Violates Court Order, Sends Asian Immigrants to South Sudan
After an appeals court declined to remove an injunction aimed at barring Donald Trump's administration from deporting noncitizens to 'third-party countries' — a country that is not their country of origin — without due process, and without giving them chance to raise concerns of persecution, torture, and death, the government allegedly violated that court order days later. Two men, who are originally from Myanmar and Vietnam and were being held in U.S. immigration custody, were deported to war-torn South Sudan, according their lawyers, Politico reported. Their lawyers said they received the a notice of the deportation plan on Monday evening and that by Tuesday morning, they were on a plane with 10 other deportees. Earlier this month, as Rolling Stone reported, the Trump administration was preparing to use a military plane to fly immigrants to Libya before Judge Brian Murphy clarified that doing so would violate his court order. Lawyers with the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, the Northwest Immigrant Rights Project, and Human Rights warned that 'Laotian, Vietnamese, and Philippine' immigrants, who are being detained by Immigration and Customs Enforcement in Texas, were 'being prepared for removal to Libya, a county notorious for its human rights violations, especially with respect to migrant residents.' Lawyers for the Burmese man, per Politico, said he was originally scheduled to be on a flight to Libya, before the plan was abandoned amid media and legal scrutiny. The attorneys also said that the man, identified as N.M. in court papers, received notification about the deportation to South Sudan only in English, violating Judge Murphy's previous order due to N.M.'s limited English proficiency. A level four travel advisory from the the U.S. State Department warns Americans to avoid travel to South Sudan. The country entered into civil war in 2013 and per the U.S. government, 'Armed conflict is ongoing and includes fighting between various political and ethnic groups.' The travel advisory also warns that 'Violent crime, such as carjackings, shootings, ambushes, assaults, robberies, and kidnappings are common throughout South Sudan. … Foreign nationals have been the victims of rape, sexual assault, armed robberies, and other violent crimes.' More from Rolling Stone Neil Young Stands With Taylor Swift, Bruce Springsteen in Trump's Musician War: 'You Work for Us' Why Trump Is Threatening to Investigate Bruce Springsteen Jon Stewart Slams CNN for Promoting Book on Biden's Health Amid Cancer Diagnosis Best of Rolling Stone The Useful Idiots New Guide to the Most Stoned Moments of the 2020 Presidential Campaign Anatomy of a Fake News Scandal The Radical Crusade of Mike Pence
