Federal judge orders Trump administration to track deported immigrants to South Sudan

I have a strong indication that my preliminary injunction order has been violated."

The judge, a Biden appointee who is based in Boston, told a lawyer for the Department of Justice

Do not travel to South Sudan due to crime, kidnapping, and armed conflict."

The US government's travel advisory states

Brian Murphy (intelligence official)u.S. District Judge

I’m not going to limit DHS on where they hold them,

Murphy said

Based on what I have been told, this seems like it may be contempt,

Judge Murphy told Elianis Perez, a lawyer for the Trump Justice Department

I believe my husband [name redacted] and 10 other individuals that were sent to Port Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, TX were deported to South Africa or Sudan,

the email begins

N.M. has limited English proficiency,

said a San Francisco-based attorney in a Tuesday filing that

At 8:27 AM PT, a Port Isabel Detention Center Detention Officer responded that N.M. had been removed ‘this morning.’ I emailed to ask to which country N.M. was removed, and the officer responded, at 8:36 AM PT, ‘South Sudan,’

according to her court declaration

The Court should further restrain all flights carrying class members to South Sudan or any other third country,

the attorneys said

The order of removal signed by a judge is to deport my husband back to his country of origin, Vietnam, not to any other third country.”

The wife, whose name was redacted in the filing, wrote to her husband’s attorneys

Nicholas Haysomunmiss head

Another war is a risk South Sudan simply cannot afford, and nor can the wider region,

Nicholas Haysom told the U.N.’s security council

Brian Murphy (intelligence official)u.S. District Judge

I can tell you it sounds like this deportation would be a violation of my preliminary injunction,

Judge Murphy said

Marco Rubiosecretary of State

We are actively searching for other countries to take people from third countries,

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said in a cabinet meeting at the end of April

Brian Murphy (intelligence official)u.S. District Judge

Where is the plane now?”

Judge Murphy asked at one point

If there is any doubt — the court sees none — the allegedly imminent removals, as reported by news agencies and as plaintiffs seek to corroborate with class-member accounts and public information, would clearly violate this court’s order,

he wrote

And the further away from America, the better, so they can’t come back across the border,

he said