The US Department of State advises American citizens to avoid South Sudan due to an ongoing armed conflict.
It has in the past accused South Sudan of “extrajudicial killings, forced disappearances, torture and cases of cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment or punishment”.
They are immigrants from countries like Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, South Sudan and Vietnam.
The eight people slated to be sent to South Sudan, it said, were “barbaric, violent criminal illegal aliens”.
“These sickos will be in South Sudan by Independence Day,” Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said in a news release on Thursday.
A last-ditch effort by eight men in US custody to avoid being deported to South Sudan, a nation that has been repeatedly criticized for violating human rights, has failed.
The eleventh-hour appeal, which has been the focus of a flurry of legal activity throughout the day, was denied by Boston Judge Brian Murphy on Friday.
Since late May, when the courts stopped an earlier deportation flight to South Sudan, the men have been detained at a US military base in Djibouti.
The Trump administration has been given permission by the US Supreme Court to deport the men to nations other than their home countries on two separate occasions. On Thursday, it released its most recent ruling [PDF].
The appeal, which was submitted that evening, cited the US Constitution’s prohibition on “cruel and unusual punishment” to argue that President Donald Trump’s repeated attempts to deport the men to South Sudan were “impermissibly punitive.”.
Because of an ongoing armed conflict, the US Department of State advises its citizens to stay away from South Sudan. In the past, it has charged South Sudan with “cases of cruel, inhuman, and degrading treatment or punishment, torture, extrajudicial killings, and forced disappearances.”.
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According to the US Department of Justice, the eight men were scheduled to be flown to South Sudan by Friday at 7 p.m. US Eastern Time (23:00 GMT). Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, South Sudan, and Vietnam are among the nations from which they are immigrants.
In Washington, DC, US District Judge Randolph Moss was initially given the case and indicated that he was in favor of the deportees’ request.
He decided to return the case to Murphy, the judge whose decisions contributed to the Supreme Court’s decisions, after briefly ordering the deportation to be halted until 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time (20:30 GMT).
The Trump administration successfully appealed the deportations to South Sudan after Murphy had previously issued injunctions against them.
But before returning the case to Murphy, Judge Moss stated that the deportees might be able to demonstrate that the Trump administration planned to mistreat them.
“It seems almost obvious to me that the US government cannot take people and put them in situations where their physical health is in danger just to punish them or send a message to others,” Moss stated at the hearing.
Meanwhile, Trump administration attorneys contended that the prolonged postponement of the deportation would cause tensions with third nations that are open to taking in deportees.
Murphy had previously decided in favor of the deportees, issuing an injunction against their removal to South Sudan and stating that they had the right to contest the deportation on the grounds of safety concerns. Murphy denied Friday’s request.
Judge Murphy was subtly reprimanded by the Supreme Court, which first lifted the injunction on June 23 and then clarified its decision once more on Thursday.
As a key component of President Trump’s signature deportation campaign, the Trump administration has been advocating for swift removals.
The administration has been accused by its detractors of violating people’s human rights, such as the right to due process under the law, in order to further its objectives.
The Trump administration, on the other hand, has framed migration as an “invasion” that poses a national security threat, and it has maintained that its use of force is necessary to drive out criminals.
It claimed that the eight individuals designated for deportation to South Sudan were “barbaric, violent criminal illegal aliens.”. It further stated that they had been convicted of offenses such as robbery, sexual assault, and first-degree murder.
By Independence Day, these sickos will be in South Sudan, according to a news release issued by Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin on Thursday.
