 "US federal court pauses deportations to South Sudan, seeks review of due process concerns")
A federal judge on Friday temporarily paused the deportation of eight individuals to South Sudan, one day after the Supreme Court authorized their removal. The decision followed new arguments presented by the immigrants’ legal team, which the judge determined warranted further review.
District Judge Randolph Moss held the unusual Fourth of July hearing Friday afternoon, requesting that the Trump administration address whether a previous Supreme Court decision, regarding due process rights for individuals ordered deported under a historic wartime statute cited by President Donald Trump, might also be applicable in the case of those facing removal to South Sudan.
The administration has been trying to deport the immigrants for weeks. None are from South Sudan, which is enmeshed in civil war and where the US government advises no one should travel before making their own funeral arrangements.
The government flew them to Djibouti but couldn’t move them further because a Massachusetts court had ruled no immigrant could be sent to a new country without a chance to have a court hearing.
The Supreme Court vacated that decision last month, then Thursday night issued a new order clarifying that that meant the immigrants could be moved to South Sudan.
Lawyers for the immigrants, who hail from Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and other countries, filed an emergency request to halt their removal later that night.
The case was assigned to Moss, who issued his order to let the government respond and “to provide time for a hearing.” That hearing was happening Friday afternoon.
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View AllThe temporary stay was first reported by legal journalist Chris Geidner.
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