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"Blatantly defied" court: Lawyers say Trump admin deported immigrants to South Sudan

"Blatantly defied" court: Lawyers say Trump admin deported immigrants to South Sudan
Immigration attorneys have accused the Trump administration of deporting immigrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan in violation of a court order, per a filing Tuesday that's requesting their "immediate return."The big picture: The attorneys made the filing in a Boston-based federal court to U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, who's already ruled that sending undocumented immigrants to countries they're not citizens of would "clearly violate" an earlier order against sending people to third countries.Driving the news: The lawyers said the man from Myanmar, identified as N.M., was delivered a notice in English without an interpreter on Monday, saying he'd be sent to South Sudan, an East African country that the State Department advises U.S. citizens not to travel to due to "continued security threats" that include crime, kidnapping, and armed conflict."N.M. has limited English proficiency," said a San Francisco-based attorney in a Tuesday filing that said she was told after the fact that her client had been "removed" from Texas' Port Isabel Detention Center to South Sudan. The emergency filing in the Massachusetts District Court said T.T.P., a national of Vietnam, "appears to have suffered the same fate as N.M." and the lawyers had "information that there were likely at least 10 other" immigrants on the deportation plane to South Sudan. The lawyers said this "blatantly defies" the court order prohibiting sending immigrants to third countries and requested the judge block any further such deportations.Representatives for the Trump administration did not immediately respond to Axios' request for comment in the evening.Go deeper: First flight leaves U.S. under Trump's $1000 "self-deport" deal

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