Federal judge halts Trump administration deportation of eight migrants to South Sudan

A federal judge on Friday halted the Trump administration's efforts to deport eight movers to South Sudan the latest development testing the legality of the Trump administration's push to ship illegal immigrants to third countries U S District Judge Randolph Moss in Washington made the ruling on the July holiday in order to give the displaced persons time to make an argument to a Massachusetts court The eight men who are from Cuba Laos Mexico Burma Sudan and Vietnam argue their deportations to South Sudan would violate the Constitution which prohibits cruel and peculiar punishment Reuters informed They have been convicted of various crimes with four of them convicted of murder the Department of Homeland Safety has declared JUDGE STRIKES DOWN TRUMP ORDER PREVENTING ASYLUM REQUESTS PROTECTIONS FOR ILLEGAL IMMIGRANTSThey were detained for six weeks on a military base in Djibouti instead of being brought back to the United States On Thursday the settlers filed new suggests after the Supreme Court disclosed that a federal judge in Boston could no longer require the Department of Homeland Shield to hold them Reuters released Fox News Digital has reached out to the White House Friday's order stops the U S cabinet from moving the men until p m ET They were scheduled to be removed to South Sudan on a p m flight TRUMP ADMIN ASK SCOTUS TO AUTHORIZE RAPID MIGRANT DEPORTATIONS TO COUNTRIES OTHER THAN THEIR OWNDuring Friday's hearing a governing body lawyer argued that court orders halting agreed-upon deportations pose a serious matter for U S diplomatic relations and would make foreign countries less likely to accept transfers of newcomers in the future The occurrence is the latest expansion over the legality of the Trump administration's campaign to deter immigration by shipping transients to locations other than their countries of origin pursuant to deals with other countries according to Reuters It seems to me almost self-evident that the United States executive cannot take human beings and send them to circumstances in which their physical well-being is at jeopardy solely either to punish them or send a signal to others Moss commented during the hearing