Deported migrants arrive from the United States in a military plane at the Ramon Villeda Morales airport in Cortés, Honduras, on January 31, 2025, the first flight of migrants returned to Honduras under the Donald Trump administration.
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For the second time in less than two weeks, immigration lawyers have gone to the Federal Court to try to prevent the Trump Sports Administration from a small group of immigrants from the United States to a country devastated by the war, not yours.
Immigration lawyers told the Court that at least two of its clients, of Myanmar and Vietnam, were deported Tuesday morning to South Sudan in violation of a court order, and demanded their return.
“The court should restrict even more all flights that transport members of the South South Sudan class or any other third country,” said lawyers.
The Department of National Security did not immediately respond to a request for comments, and NBC News could not independently verify that a deportation flight to South South had occurred.
A travel advice from the State Department warns Americans who do not go to South Sudan “due to crime, kidnapping and armed conflict” and points out that in March, due to the situation there, the department “ordered the party of employees of the United States not emergency of South Sudan.”
The two immigrants were allegedly sent to South Sudan on Tuesday were the subjects of the final elimination orders that allowed the Government to deport them to their countries of origin, according to judicial presentations.
In their presentation, the lawyers included an email from the wife of an Vietnamese immigrant who said she believed that her husband and at least 10 other people were deported to South Sudan on Tuesday morning. She said immigrants had refused to sign forms that facilitate their deportations to a country not yours.
The woman, whose name was written in the presentation, wrote to her husband’s lawyers: “The order of removal signed by a judge is to deport my husband to her country of origin, Vietnam, not any other third country.”
The Trump administration had tried to send a group of immigrants to Libya this month. Immigrants were from countries such as the Philippines, Vietnam and Laos, according to an emergency motion that their lawyers presented at that time. That flight was arrested after a federal judge issued a temporary restriction order.
The judge said immigrants should receive notice and the opportunity to raise concerns about possible torture or persecution. The attempt to stop or reverse deportations to South South one is before the same judge.
Immigration lawyers believe that at least one of the people that the Trump administration had tried to send to Libya was sent to South Sudan.
The efforts to get to the South Sudan government to make comments were not successful.
