In a quiet yet chilling memo leaked to the press, the United States Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) laid bare a plan that dismantles more than precedent—it dismantles the post-war promise that no human being should ever be forcibly returned to danger. The proposed policy permits deporting non-citizens to third-party countries, even when they lack…
Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have now reached the Trump administration’s intended destination, war-torn South Sudan, a country the State Department advises against travel to due…
A federal judge briefly halted the Trump administration on Friday from placing eight migrants on a plane destined for conflict-ridden South Sudan, to give lawyers for the men time to make their argument to a court in Massachusetts. US District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington made the ruling at an emergency hearing on July 4,…
On May 20th, a flight with eight deportees left Texas headed to South Sudan, a country on the brink of civil war. But mid-flight, a judicial battle began to unfold that forced the flight to land in Djibouti. Katrin Bennhold, speaks with Hamed Aleaziz, New York Times reporter covering Homeland Security and Immigration, to understand…
The Trump administration has violated a federal court order by deporting at least a dozen migrants to South Sudan without giving them a chance to contest their removal, according to attorneys and a US District Judge. The deportations, revealed in an emergency court motion on Tuesday, targeted Vietnamese and Burmese nationals, some of whom do…
The Trump administration’s decision over the weekend to revoke visas for all South Sudanese passport holders has added to the mounting political and humanitarian challenges of a country on the brink of civil war, officials and observers said on Monday. Tensions between the two political leaders of South Sudan have escalated in recent weeks, especially…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that he was revoking the visas of all South Sudan passport holders because the country’s transitional government had refused to accept in a “timely manner” citizens who were being deported by the Trump administration. Mr. Rubio also said in a social media post that he would “restrict…
Secretary of State Marco Rubio said on Saturday that he was revoking the visas of all South Sudan passport holders because the country’s transitional government had refused to accept in a “timely manner” citizens who were being deported by the Trump administration. Mr. Rubio also said in a social media post that he would “restrict…
South Sudan’s Vice President Riek Machar has been arrested, according to his party, amid escalating tensions in the world’s youngest country that the United Nations warned could blow up a fragile peace deal and has pushed the country back to the brink of civil war.. Mr. Machar was detained late on Wednesday by the National…
An airstrike by South Sudan’s airforce killed at least 19 people in the country’s east, residents said, less than two weeks after government forces withdrew from the area following intense fighting with an ethnic militia. The clashes in Nasir, near the Ethiopian border, between national forces and the White Army, a loosely organised group mostly…