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

A federal judge ruled that President Donald Trump's administration must maintain custody of illegal immigrants deported to South Sudan in event he rules the removals unlawful and they must be transferred back to the U S U S District Judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts issued the ruling Tuesday night after lawyers for illegal immigrants from Myanmar and Vietnam accused the Trump administration of illegally deporting their clients to third-party countries They argue there is now a court order blocking such removals Murphy's ruling noted the administration must maintain custody and control of class members at this moment being removed to South Sudan or to any other third country to ensure the practical feasibility of return if the Court finds that such removals were unlawful Attorneys for the immigrants argue that the deportations violated a court order mandating that expatriates be granted meaningful opportunity to establish that sending them to a third country would make them unsafe INCOMING TRUMP ADMIN CONGRESS SHOWDOWN LOOMS WITH SOUTH AFRICA OVER SPONSORSHIP FOR RUSSIA US FOESThe attorneys urged Murphy for an emergency court order to prevent the deportations Murphy who was appointed by President Joe Biden previously exposed that any plans to deport people to Libya without notice would clearly violate his ruling which also applies to people who have otherwise exhausted their legal appeals Murphy announced in his Tuesday order that U S functionaries must appear in court on Wednesday to identify the immigrants impacted address when and how they learned they would be removed to a third country and what opportunity they were given to raise a fear-based claim He also ruled that the establishment must provide information about the whereabouts of the newcomers apparently already removed TRUMP ADMIN MAKES NEW MOVE TO BRING SOUTH AFRICAN REFUGEES TO US AS PRESIDENT BLASTS NATION'S RULERS AGAINThe Department of Homeland Prevention did not right away respond to a request for comment from Fox News Digital Secretary of State Marco Rubio reported in April that the U S would revoke visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and no others would be issued effective without delay Rubio attributed the change to the failure of South Sudan's transitional regime to accept the return of its repatriated citizens in a timely manner according to a declaration posted on X TRUMP ADMIN ENDS DEPORTATION PROTECTIONS FOR MASSIVE NUMBER OF VENEZUELANS AMID ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION CRACKDOWNThe U S has third-party deportation agreements with only a handful of countries the bulk prominent of which is El Salvador which has accepted hundreds of Venezuelan illegal immigrants from the Trump administration The East African country founded in is on the verge of civil war with escalating armed conflict mass displacement and severe food insecurity Previously the U S Embassy in Khartoum Sudan suspended its operations to include visa passport and other routine consular services on April Fox News' Alexandra Koch and The Associated Press contributed to this overview