A federal judge is discussing whether the Trump administration is to deport migrants to South Sudan on Tuesday, in violation of a previous matter that prohibits the deportation of migrants to countries other than giving them sufficient opportunity to contact their removal.
An order from the American boycott judge, Brian Murphy, late on Tuesday, directs the government to “maintain custody and control” any person who has been deported to South Sudan covered by a lawsuit that defies the exercise of the administration of the deportation of migrants to the third countries “to ensure the feasibility of the practical return if the court finds that this removal was illegal.”
The judge’s order comes after the lawyers in the National Migration Law coalition, and other groups an emergency request to prevent the government from deporting migrants to southern Sudan, saying that they had at least 12 migrants sent to East Africa.
Dishes abroad during a media tour at the Isabel Port detention center (PIDC), hosted by the United States of Immigration and Customs (ICE), is enforcing implementation and removal (ERO), in Los Fressan, Texas, on June 10, 2024.
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Lawyers said they believed that one of the men, born in Myanmar, who was identified in the court files as “NM”, was removed from the Izabel Port detention center in Texas to South Sudan on Tuesday morning. Lawyers also claim that the Vietnamese immigrant referred to as TTP “appears to have suffered from the same fate.”
Lawyers said that both men called deposit have orders from removal to their countries of origin.
During a virtual hearing arranged in a hurry on Tuesday in the US Bostal County Court in Boston, the lawyer of the Justice Ministry told the judge that NM had been deported to Myanmar, not South Sudan. But the lawyer refused to say where TTP was sent, saying that the information was classified, according to the cancer of the session in the New York Times.
The lawyer also said that the current location of the plane that carries migrants to remove as well as its final destination was classified, according to the Times.
Murphy, one of the appoinals, told the lawyer of the Ministry of Justice that officials who have been deported in violation of his previous order may face criminal contempt measures, according to the Times. Lawyer Tina Dioolmoto, of the National Law of Migration, which was present at the hearing, confirmed this account.
ABC News contacted DHS to comment on the alleged removals to South Sudan.
The entrance to the detention center in Port Isabel is seen after a media tour hosted by the United States of Migration and Customs (ICE) enforcement and removal operations (ERO), in Los Fressan, Texas, on June 10, 2024.
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As part of his order, Murphy also issued instructions to the government to be ready to identify the affected deportees and provide more details about their removal and the opportunity of each individual to claim fearful.
US State Department It is currently recommended American travelers not to visit South Sudan due to the threat of crime, kidnapping and armed conflict.
Another session was determined in the case on Wednesday at 11 am
Last month, Murphy issued an order that requires the Trump administration to provide individuals with a written notice before removing it to a third country and a “significant opportunity” to increase concerns about their safety. The initial vacuum order is also prohibited for the government to remove the immigrant to a third country without examining potential risks to its safety in this country and a 15 -day window to contact the government’s design based on this examination.
In an advertisement, a NM lawyer said he was also one of the men who tried the Trump administration to deport Libya earlier this month, which led to a legal stampede to prevent it. In this case, the judge said that removing men to Libya without legal procedures “clearly violates” his matter.
Jack Moore from ABC contributed to this report.
