Supreme Court green-lights deporting violent criminal migrants to South Sudan
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled the Trump administration can deport eight illegal migrants with violent criminal convictions to South Sudan — despite only one of them being from the war-torn country.The Trump administration contends the men committed crimes so “monstrous and barbaric” that no other country would take them.
The migrants include a sex offender from Myanmar and a convicted murderer from Laos — and others from Cuba and Vietnam.
Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, but Elana Kagan joined the majority in siding with the Trump administration.
The ruling follows the high court’s 6-3 decision last month to allow the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their home nation — so-called “third countries” — with limited notice.
The eight foreign nationals have been detained at a US military base in Djibouti since May, when a federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden blocked the Trump administration from sending the men to South Sudan.
Supreme Court green-lights deporting violent criminal migrants to South Sudan
The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled the Trump administration can deport eight illegal migrants with violent criminal convictions to South Sudan — despite only one of them being from the war-torn co…
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