The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) announced the deportation of eight men convicted of serious crimes in the United States to South Sudan. The development took place after a high-profile legal battle over the fate of the men culminated when two federal judges rejected a last-ditch attempt by immigration rights advocates to halt their removal from U.S. soil.
Among those deported are two Cuban nationals (Enrique Arias-Hierro and José Manuel Rodríguez-Quiñones, both residents of Florida with an extensive criminal record) and one Mexican national (Jesús Muñoz Gutiérrez, convicted of second-degree murder and sentenced to life imprisonment).
