By LINDSAY WHITEHURST
WASHINGTON (AP) — Immigration authorities seem to have begun deporting migrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan regardless of a court docket order on removals to 3rd nations, attorneys for the migrants stated Tuesday.
As much as a dozen individuals from a number of nations might have been deported to Africa, immigration rights legal professionals advised a choose.
An immigration official in Texas confirmed in an electronic mail that at the least one man from Myanmar had been flown to South Sudan Tuesday morning, based on court docket paperwork.
A lady additionally reported to attorneys that her husband from Vietnam and as much as 10 different individuals had been flown to Africa on Tuesday.
These removals would violate a court docket order from a choose in Massachusetts requiring that individuals should have an opportunity to problem removals to nations apart from their homelands, attorneys from the Nationwide Immigration Litigation Alliance wrote.
They requested Choose Brian E. Murphy for an emergency court docket order to forestall removing with out a chance to go to court docket. He beforehand stated deportations to Libya would violate his ruling.
The Division of Homeland Safety and the White Home didn’t instantly return messages looking for remark.
South Sudan’s political panorama is fragile and up to date violence between authorities troops and armed opposition teams has escalated tensions.
Related Press author Rebecca Santana contributed to this report.
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