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The government of US President Donald Trump has deported eight immigrants to South Sudan. A dangerous country to which most of the men have no connections, as the Ministry of Homeland Salvation (DHS) announced on Saturday.
“These psychopaths will be in South Sudan until the independence day”
The deportations were made on Friday evening after two federal judges refused to block the measure. Citing current decisions of the Supreme Court. The US State Department warns American to visit South Sudan. “Because of persistent security threats”.
“These psychopaths will be in South Sudan until the independence day,” said Tricia McLaughlin, DHS State Secretary, on Thursday in a statement. She described the deportation as “victory for the rule of law, security and protection of the American people”.
Some of the deported immigrants who can be seen in a photo with tied hands and feet of guards on the plane come from Cuba, Mexico, Laos, Myanmar and Vietnam. One of the men, Dian Peter Domach, is, according to DHS, South Sudanese citizen. The authority states that the men were convicted of crimes such as murder, kidnapping and sexual assault. They had been held in a military base in Dschibuti in a ship container since May while waiting for court decisions. ABC News reported on Saturday morning about her deportation in the South Sudan.
The deportations are a significant success for Trump, who has made the hard treatment of immigrants into a trademark of his government. Previously, he had already deported hundreds of Venezuelan men into a notorious prison in El Salvador without proper procedure. Including Kilmar Abrego Garcia. However, the Trump government fulfilled an order from the Supreme Court. She brought Abrego Garcia back to the United States last month so that he can put new criminal charges in Tennessee. Abrego Garcia recently reported severe abuse and psychological torture. Below sleep deprivation, all of his detention in El Salvador.
Supreme Court enables deportation to third countries
Although the Supreme Court liked to respect the Trump government to respect the right to a fair proceedings for immigrants and to reverse Abrego Garcia’s illegal deportation to El Salvador, the conservative super majority recently approved the efforts of the president to deport immigrants to third countries. So countries from which they do not come.
The US State Department warns American to visit South Sudan. “Because of crime, kidnapping and armed conflicts”. It also adds: “Violence crimes such as carjackings, shootings, standings, raids, robberies and kidnappings are widespread throughout the South Sudan, including Juba. Foreigners became victims of rapes, sexual assault, armed robberies and other acts of violence.”
Judge Sotomayor criticizes deportations sharply
However, the Supreme Court raised an injunction from judge Brian Murphy in Massachusetts, which the government had prevented from deporting the men to the South Sudan. The court made it clear his previous decision on this topic on Thursday.
“What the government wants to do is to bring the eight people without US citizenship, which she has illegally removed from the United States, from Dschibuti to the South Sudan, where they are handed over to the authorities there. With regard to the probability that they will be tortured or killed,” wrote the liberal judge Sonia Sotomayor in a different vote. “Since the fifth constitutional addition guarantees the right to a fair procedure in deportation procedures’, deportations without prior notice are undoubtedly illegally. The government asks the court to eliminate an obstacle to its illegal goals.”
On Friday, judge Murphy rejected an urgent request from the men’s lawyers to block the deportations. They argued that the measure was “inadmissible”. And their clients would probably be exposed to torture.
Lawyers raise the alarm: deportations “unconstitutional punishment”
The US district judge Randolph Moss in Washington, DC, initially ordered on Friday afternoon to temporarily stop the deportations while he was transferred to Murphy.
“It almost goes without saying that the US government must not bring people into situations in which their physical integrity is at risk-be it to punish them or send a signal to others,” said Moss at the hearing.
“It is deeply worrying that the procedural decision of the Supreme Court prevented a court from dealing with the fact that these deportations are unconstitutional,” said Trina Realmuto, lawyer of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, which the men represented, the New York Times.