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(156,684 posts) Fri Jul 4, 2025, 03:15 PM Jul 4

Judge briefly blocks immigrants' deportation to South Sudan after Supreme Court cleared the way

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Source: AP

Updated 4:03 PM EDT, July 4, 2025

A federal judge on Friday briefly halted deportations of eight immigrants to war-torn South Sudan, sending the case to another judge, in Boston, the day after the Supreme Court greenlighted their removal.

District Judge Randolph Moss sent the case north from Washington after an extraordinary Fourth of July hearing on Friday afternoon. He concluded that the judge best equipped to deal with the issues was Brian Murphy, the one whose rulings led to the initial halt of the Trump administration’s effort to begin deportations to the eastern African country.

He extended his order halting the deportation until 4:30 p.m. Eastern time, but it was unclear whether Murphy would act on the federal holiday to further limit the removal. Moss said new claims by the immigrants’ lawyers deserved a hearing.

The administration has been trying to deport the immigrants for weeks. None are from South Sudan, which is enmeshed in civil war and where the U.S government advises no one should travel before making their own funeral arrangements. The government flew them to the U.S. Naval Base at Djibouti but couldn’t move them further because Murphy had ruled no immigrant could be sent to a new country without a chance to have a court hearing.

Read more: https://apnews.com/article/south-sudan-deportation-supreme-court-5055bb1560545e3bc0c6592868b07867

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Judge blocks immigrants' deportation to South Sudan one day after Supreme Court clears the way

Updated 3:04 PM EDT, July 4, 2025

A federal judge on Friday temporarily halted deportations of eight immigrants to war-torn South Sudan the day after the Supreme Court greenlighted their removal, saying new claims by the immigrants’ lawyers deserved a hearing.

District Judge Randolph Moss proceeded with the extraordinary Fourth of July hearing on Friday afternoon, directing the Trump administration to discuss whether a prior Supreme Court ruling that immigrants slated for removal under an 18th century wartime act invoked by President Donald Trump deserve due process might also apply to those due to be removed to South Sudan.

The administration has been trying to deport the immigrants for weeks. None are from South Sudan, which is enmeshed in civil war and where the U.S government advises no one should travel before making their own funeral arrangements. The government flew them to Djibouti but couldn’t move them further because a Massachusetts court had ruled no immigrant could be sent to a new country without a chance to have a court hearing.

The Supreme Court vacated that decision last month, then Thursday night issued a new order clarifying that that meant the immigrants could be moved to South Sudan. Lawyers for the immigrants, who hail from Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and other countries, filed an emergency request to halt their removal later that night.

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Judge briefly blocks immigrants' deportation to South Sudan after Supreme Court cleared the way (Original Post) BumRushDaShow Jul 4 OP

The people might not survive Marthe48 Jul 4 #1

Everything old is new again. Was thinking of The Bisbee Deportation Attilatheblond Jul 4 #2

I've never heard of this one Bayard Jul 4 #5

You are most welcome. Please share There was a documentary made to honor the 100th anniversary of this disgusting act. Attilatheblond Jul 4 #10

It's not unlike what was recently brought up with this moving people from place to place BumRushDaShow Jul 4 #8

Yep. They hope human beings will just be lost in their shuffling. Attilatheblond Jul 4 #9

I'm confused. choie Jul 4 #3

This is the state of affairs that our legal system is in right now BumRushDaShow Jul 4 #4

The update rather changed the content, not just appending a bit of info. n/t Igel Jul 4 #6

The update added that the judge was moving the case with the emergency stay BumRushDaShow Jul 4 #11

Trump gives money to Rwanda, Libya, South Sudan, wherever, to accept and supposedly help their new immigrants. Norrrm Jul 4 #7

Marthe48

(21,253 posts)

1. The people might not survive

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Jul 4, 2025, 03:20 PM

Jul 4

I hope they do. They are better humans than the evil monsters sending them to certain death.

The depraved monsters on the (formerly) s.c. will order the people on a one way trip again because their master demands it.

Attilatheblond

(6,672 posts)

2. Everything old is new again. Was thinking of The Bisbee Deportation

Reply to Marthe48 (Reply #1)

Fri Jul 4, 2025, 03:50 PM

Jul 4

where striking mine workers in southeastern AZ were loaded into cattle cars and dumped in the desert of New Mexico, in July, without water or food.

This ugly page of our history is seldom mentioned but sorely needs to be recognized for the raw ugliness of corporate greed and how useful racist idiots and 'law enforcement' can be tools to undermine what is sacred in this nation. Maybe if we did a better job of teaching history, today would never have been allowed to happen. And that is exactly why the powers behind the GOP hate education.

https://www.zinnedproject.org/news/tdih/the-bisbee-deportation/

On June 24, 1917, the Industrial Workers of the World (I.W.W.) presented the Bisbee, Arizona mining companies with a list of demands. These demands included improvements to safety and working conditions, such as requiring two men on each machine and an end to blasting in the mines during shifts.

Demands were also made to end discrimination against members of labor organizations and the unequal treatment of foreign and minority workers. Furthermore, the unions wanted a flat wage system to replace sliding scales tied to the market price of copper. The copper companies refused all I.W.W. demands, using the war effort as justification. As a result, a strike was called, and by June 27 roughly half of the Bisbee work force was on strike.

On July 12, 1917, the striking workers and others were kidnapped and held at a local baseball park. They were then loaded onto cattle cars and transported 200 miles for 16 hours through the desert without food or water. The deportees were unloaded at Hermanas, New Mexico, without money or transportation, and warned not to return to Bisbee.

From University of AZ Archives.

Bayard

(26,010 posts)

5. I've never heard of this one

Reply to Attilatheblond (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 4, 2025, 04:08 PM

Jul 4

Thanks for the article.

Attilatheblond

(6,672 posts)

10. You are most welcome. Please share There was a documentary made to honor the 100th anniversary of this disgusting act.

Reply to Bayard (Reply #5)

Fri Jul 4, 2025, 04:56 PM

Jul 4

https://www.npr.org/2018/09/06/645052663/bisbee-17-a-rich-compelling-documentary-evokes-the-brutal-past-of-an-arizona-tow]

Also, just search 'docmentary of the Bisbee Deportation' to find much more on the topic. While Bisbee is now a combination of long established Hispanic families, hippies from the 60s and recently a tourist hang out in the AZ borderlands, the memory of the deportation is strong. There are people whose families have been in Bisbee for generations, and a lot of 'newbies' who embrace the culture and peculiar history of the place.

The Deportation is a stain on our nation that too few know about. Today, we are seeing old horrors rearing their ugly heads, but the horrors are nothing new, especially to the proud Hispanic families who have been here since before AZ became part of the US. Ignorance is not bliss. Too often it is the conduit from old horrors to new horrors.

BumRushDaShow

(156,684 posts)

8. It's not unlike what was recently brought up with this moving people from place to place

Reply to Attilatheblond (Reply #2)

Fri Jul 4, 2025, 04:24 PM

Jul 4

The Cruel Story Behind The 'Reverse Freedom Rides'

February 29, 2020 6:09 AM ET

By Gabrielle Emanuel

(snip)

Fuming over the civil rights movement, Southern segregationists had concocted a way to retaliate against Northern liberals. In 1962, they tricked about 200 African Americans from the South into moving north. The idea was simple: When large numbers of African Americans showed up on Northern doorsteps, Northerners would not be able to accommodate them. They would not want them, and their hypocrisy would be exposed.

The Reverse Freedom Rides have largely disappeared from the country's collective memory. The scheme almost never appears in history books and is little-known even in Hyannis, the primary target of the ploy. But some hear echoes of that segregationist past in America's present. And for the families that came to the North based on a lie, the journey has cast an enduring shadow on their lives.

(snip)

where in the above example, racist southern segregationists loaded up busses and shipped black people to New England (in some cases, right to the Kennedy compound in Hyanis Port, MA on the Cape). No food/water, no lodging, only lies about "jobs" and other crap they came up with

Attilatheblond

(6,672 posts)

9. Yep. They hope human beings will just be lost in their shuffling.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Reply #8)

Fri Jul 4, 2025, 04:46 PM

Jul 4

Out of sight, out of mind.

choie

(5,828 posts)

3. I'm confused.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Jul 4, 2025, 03:52 PM

Jul 4

If the "Supreme" Court ruled that trump can deport them to Sudan, how is a Federal judge able to temporarily hault it?
Please excuse my ignorance!

BumRushDaShow

(156,684 posts)

4. This is the state of affairs that our legal system is in right now

Reply to choie (Reply #3)

Fri Jul 4, 2025, 04:06 PM

Jul 4

almost non-existent.

AP finally updated just now so will add the update.

Igel

(36,966 posts)

6. The update rather changed the content, not just appending a bit of info. n/t

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Jul 4, 2025, 04:15 PM

Jul 4

BumRushDaShow

(156,684 posts)

11. The update added that the judge was moving the case with the emergency stay

Reply to Igel (Reply #6)

Fri Jul 4, 2025, 04:57 PM

Jul 4

to the original judge to act on with a hearing.

District Judge Randolph Moss sent the case north from Washington after an extraordinary Fourth of July hearing on Friday afternoon. He concluded that the judge best equipped to deal with the issues was Brian Murphy, the one whose rulings led to the initial halt of the Trump administration’s effort to begin deportations to the eastern African country.

The highlighted part is "new". Am wondering if someone was looking at a technicality of whose order was actually "vacated" by the SCOTUS (the D.C. judge or the Boston judge). There was apparently an order from the SCOTUS and then a 2nd one late last night that supposedly "clarified" their initial order.

Norrrm

(2,387 posts)

7. Trump gives money to Rwanda, Libya, South Sudan, wherever, to accept and supposedly help their new immigrants.

Reply to BumRushDaShow (Original post)

Fri Jul 4, 2025, 04:18 PM

Jul 4

Trump gives money to Rwanda, Libya, South Sudan, wherever, to accept and supposedly help their new immigrants.
Country/politicians keep the money.
Welcome to 'here'.
Have a good time.

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