The removals may be in violation of Judge Brian Murphy’s ruling from last month, which prohibited the US administration from transporting migrants to third countries without providing them with a “meaningful opportunity” to contest their deportation.
Immigration lawyers informed the judge in an urgent filing that a plane carrying twelve passengers had touched down in South Sudan on Tuesday.
As the Republican president looks to fulfill a campaign promise to carry out mass deportations, this is the most recent confrontation between Trump and the federal courts.
On Tuesday, lawyers for the National Immigration Litigation Alliance requested an urgent order from Judge Murphy to stop the deportation, claiming that they had included citizens of Vietnam and Myanmar.
