Supreme Court green-lights deporting violent criminal migrants to South Sudan


The Supreme Court on Thursday ruled the Trump administration can deport eight illegal migrants with violent criminal convictions to South Sudan — despite only one of them being from the war-torn country.

The Trump administration contends the men committed crimes so “monstrous and barbaric” that no other country would take them.


(Clockwise from top left) Enrique Arias-Hierro, Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Quinones, Thongxay Nilakout, Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, Tuan Thanh Phan, Nyo Myint, Kyaw Mya, and Dian Peter Domach were all put on a flight to South Sudan.

The migrants include a sex offender from Myanmar and a convicted murderer from Laos — and others from Cuba and Vietnam.

Liberal Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented, but Elana Kagan joined the majority in siding with the Trump administration.

The ruling follows the high court’s 6-3 decision last month to allow the Trump administration to resume deporting migrants to countries other than their home nation – so-called “third countries” – with limited notice.

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