Deported immigrants, mostly Asian and Latino, will be in Djibouti for 2 weeks, White House says

[Eugene]

Source: NBC News

Deported immigrants, mostly Asian and Latino, will be in Djibouti for 2 weeks, White House says

Press secretary Karoline Leavitt blamed a deportation flight linked to South Sudan on a judge who ruled that the administration had violated a court order.

May 22, 2025, 3:07 PM EDT
By Kimmy Yam and Laura Strickler

A flight with eight immigrants that left Texas this week, reportedly headed for South Sudan, will now remain in the East African country of Djibouti for two weeks to comply with a court order, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt said on Thursday.

During a briefing, Leavitt placed blame on the U.S. District Court Judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts, following a hearing Wednesday after eight people from Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, Mexico and South Sudan had been deported to a third country. Lawyers had said the flight was headed for South Sudan, but the Department of Homeland Security says it won't confirm.

Murphy had said in the hearing the Trump administration was in violation of a previous injunction that prevented people from being sent to countries other than their own without opportunities to voice their fears of torture or persecution, or without proper notice ahead of time.

Murphy ordered that the individuals be provided legal counsel and an opportunity to raise their fears. He also ordered the deportees to be given at least 15 days to reopen immigration proceedings and challenge their deportation in the event the government still aims to send them to a third country.

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Read more: https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/immigration/deported-migrants-asian-latino-djibouti-rcna208595

[Deuxcents]

1. Why are Asians and Latinos deported to South Sudan..why, if they had to be deported can't they go to their

Original countries? How are they to survive in a country they most likely won’t know the language or even know anyone? How are they to survive? Why are we doing this at all?

[Eugene]

3. Their home countries either cannot or will not take them back. Myanmar, for example, is in a state of civil war.

The deportees on the plane - according the the Trump administration - are convicted criminals.

The apparent strategy is to go around legitimate methods and send them back by proxy. If the law and the courts say they cant send them to Vietnam of Myanmar, dump them on an unwilling third country like South Sudan, which has vowed to deport these people onward to their home countries.

If South Sudan can't repatriate them, they are stranded, effectively stateless and highly vulnerable in one of the most dangerous places on Earth.

Inhumane? Yes, and that's the point.

[Irish_Dem]

5. If they were convicted criminals via US courts, wouldn't they be in US prisons?

[Eugene]

6. Most of them have served out their sentences and had final deportation orders approved.

At least three of these deportees have life sentences to serve.

One of the deportees is Mexican. "It was unclear why he would be flown to South Sudan or beyond when Mexico is just south of the United States."

https://apnews.com/article/deportees-south-sudan-ice-immigration-identities-eddd2d1a172775ec7d9403984ffb41e2

[Irish_Dem]

7. So if an immigrant commits a crime, they serve their US sentence, then get deported?

And if they are serving a life sentence they don't get deported but stay in prison for life here in the US?

Yes why not send the Mexican to Mexico.
Cheaper and easier.

[tulipsandroses]

2. My sentiments exactly. The cruelty is the point

Unless they were escaping political violence or other instances where their life would be in jeopardy, they should be able to return to their country of origin.
All of it is just cruel and sickening.

[Bread and Circuses]

4. Oh !this is brilliant, obey the letter of the court order NOT the legal duty ....

So, they will not trop them off in S. Sudan. Nah, find a random, tiny nation and deliver them to another hellscape.

These seditious traitors are showing that they hold disdain for the constitution