Posted on 05/20/2025 9:22:33 PM PDT by E. Pluribus Unum
WASHINGTON (AP) — A federal judge ruled late Tuesday that U.S. officials must retain custody and control of migrants apparently removed to South Sudan in case he orders their removals were unlawful.
U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts issued the ruling after an emergency hearing, after attorneys for immigrants said the Trump administration appears to have begun deporting people from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan — despite a court order restricting removals to other countries.
Murphy said the government must “maintain custody and control of class members currently being removed to South Sudan or to any other third country, to ensure the practical feasibility of return if the Court finds that such removals were unlawful.”
While Murphy left the details to the government’s discretion, he said he expects the migrants “will be treated humanely.”
Attorneys for the migrants told the judge that immigration authorities may have sent up to a dozen people from several countries to Africa, which they argue violates a court order saying people must get a “meaningful opportunity” to argue that sending them to a country outside their homeland would threaten their safety.
The apparent removal of one man from Myanmar was confirmed in an email from an immigration official in Texas, according to court documents. He was informed only in English, a language he does not speak well, and his attorneys learned of the plan hours before his deportation flight, they said.
A woman also reported that her husband from Vietnam and up to 10 other people were flown to Africa Tuesday morning, attorneys from the National Immigration Litigation Alliance wrote.
The attorneys asked Murphy for an emergency court order to prevent the deportations. Murphy, who was appointed by President Joe...
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Dear Brian: Keep track of them yourself moron.
Oh no, an info snafu. All gone just like the 35,000 illegal children under creepy gropin’ pedophile slowjoe biden admin.
Chip em.
So, the judge wants the US to wage war against the Sudan?
Ay Pee
You have such a broad vocabulary.
It takes a lot of intelligence to post the same thing over and over and over and over and over...
Very clever.
Go to Sudan and pound sand, Judge Murphy.
Looks like they should have self deported.
Let them make that argument from their homeland.
We have NO obligation to return them to a country they claim to be from, or to anywhere else. Throw them on the next plane to any country that's sent in illegal alien invaders. "You don't have to go home but you can't stay here."
This is getting to be beyond preposterous. We’re supposed to keep track of people in countries that have either no central government or a central government that abhors us?
Whadda ya know? Another autopen judge.
I think the Administration’s position should be that Joe Biden has their identities or Not from when they were allowed to walk into the US without proper ID or Vetting.
Maybe Joe has a list of their Obama Phone numbers or their newly issued Social Security Numbers or the Addresses where their Food Stamps and Money Cards were sent !
I think the Trump Administration should deem them unidentifiable !
That’s over 350,000 missing children under Joe Biden.
come on Trump. you know you got to suspend habeus for illegals. stop listening to your dumb lawyers. just get it done.
Oops! We lost them! We have no idea where they are.
Be a shame if the storage computer was “wiped with a cloth” or something.
Of course he is.
(just another Masshole)
These liberal Judges are pretty full of themselves.
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