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Trump administration completes contentious deportations to South Sudan

A plane carrying US deportees touched down in Juba, South Sudan, on July 5, 2025, according to airport staff [Thomas Mukoya/Reuters]

The United States has confirmed it completed the deportations of eight men to South Sudan, a day after a US judge cleared the way for President Donald Trump’s administration to send them to the violence-hit African country.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) said on Saturday that the men were deported a day earlier, on US Independence Day on Friday, after they lost a last-minute legal bid to halt their transfer.

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