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7. Judge orders U.S. to maintain custody of migrants sent to South Sudan
Wed May 21, 2025, 12:39 AM
May 21
https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2025/05/20/migrants-may-have-been-deported-south-sudan-despite-court-orders-lawyers-say/

"A federal judge on Tuesday evening ordered the Trump administration not to let a group of migrants being transported to South Sudan leave the custody of U.S. immigration authorities.

U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Boston wrote that the Trump administration must not let the migrants being transported to South Sudan out of their custody to ensure that the migrants will be able to be returned to the United States if the court finds that their attempted deportations are unlawful. The order also applies to other migrants being deported “to any third country” — meaning nations where deported migrants are not citizens.

..The order came in response to an emergency request from the lawyers for a group of migrants who asked Murphy to intervene after indications that federal immigration authorities may have deported up to a dozen immigrants from Myanmar, Vietnam and other countries to South Sudan..."

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