The Trump administration asked the Supreme Court on Tuesday to allow rapid deportations of migrants to countries other than their own, despite the decision of a federal judge that he must first have a “significant opportunity” to oppose.
The judge said that the administration had violated an order for his entry last month in the cases of several men charged in a plane after being informed that they were sent to South Sudan, a African countries prey to violence that most of them are not. The prescription required to have first authorized the opportunity to show that they risked torture if they were expelled in a country other than theirs.
Their flight apparently landed on Wednesday in the African Nation of Djibouti, where there is an American military base, and they have apparently been detained there since. The judge, Brian E. Murphy of the Boston American district court, judged that men should have access to a lawyer and a chance to challenge the government plan.
There were eight deported on board the flight to Djibouti. One east of South Sudanese, and the government said that another will be sent to Myanmar, its country of origin, leaving the other six in the limbo. The eight was found guilty of violent crimes.
In the administration’s emergency request, the general request, D. John Sauer, wrote that judge Murphy had thwarted “the government’s ability to withdraw some of the worst illegal foreigners”.
“The United States faces an illegal immigration crisis, largely because many foreigners who deserve the most distant are often the most difficult to withdraw,” Sauer wrote.
