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US completes deportation of 8 men to South Sudan after weeks of legal wrangling
The Statesman Siliguri
|July 07, 2025
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 to "crime, kidnapping, and armed conflict."
The immigrants from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam, and South Sudan arrived in South Sudan on Friday after a federal judge cleared the way for the Trump administration to relocate them in a case that had gone to the Supreme Court, which had permitted their removal from the U.S. Administration officials said the men had been con
This story is from the July 07, 2025 edition of The Statesman Siliguri.
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