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The Guardian - US
The Guardian - US
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Maya Yang and Maanvi Singh

Judge rules White House violated order by deporting migrants to South Sudan

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The national flag of South Sudan, flown in the capital, Juba, on 10 July 2011. Photograph: Pete Muller/AP

A federal judge has ruled the US government’s attempt to deport migrants to South Sudan “unquestionably” violated an earlier court order.

Brian E Murphy, the US district judge in Massachusetts, made the remark at an emergency hearing he had ordered in Boston following the Trump administration’s apparent removal of eight people to South Sudan, despite most of them being from other countries.

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