US supreme court clears way for deportations of 8 men to South Sudan

The US Supreme Court has allowed the Trump administration to deport the eight men who have been held for weeks at an American military base in Djibouti to war-torn South Sudan. Most of the men are from countries including Vietnam, South Korea, Mexico, Laos, Cuba and Myanmar. Just one is from South Sudan.

The Supreme Court’s order came yesterday after the court’s conservative majority last month decided that immigration officials can quickly deport people



to countries to which they have no connection. That order paused a district judge’s earlier ruling that immigrants being sent to third countries must first be allowed to prove they would face torture, persecution or death if they were sent there.

The Trump administration has been seeking deals with various countries to accept deportees that the US government cannot quickly send back to their homelands.