The Nazis industrialized their crimes against humanity. We’re just outsourcing ours:
A judge in a late Tuesday order said the Trump administration must “maintain custody and control” of immigrants “being removed to South Sudan or to any other third country” in case he finds such removals were unlawful.
Immigration attorneys have accused the administration of deporting immigrants from Myanmar and Vietnam to South Sudan in violation of a court order, per a filing Tuesday that requested their “immediate return.”
The attorneys made the filing in a Boston-based federal court to U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, who’s already ruled that sending undocumented immigrants to countries they’re not citizens of would “clearly violate” an earlier order against sending people to third countries. The Biden-appointed Murphy said in his order he’s leaving “the practicalities of compliance” to the Trump administration, but he expects the immigrants “will be treated humanely.”
DHS identified eight individuals ICE deported and listed crimes they were convicted of in a news release also shared on the White House’s website on Wednesday. That list includes Cuban nationals Enrique Arias-Hierro and Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Quinones; Thongxay Nilakout, a citizen of Laos; Mexican national Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez; Dian Peter Domach, a South Sudanese citizen; Myanmar (Burma) citizens Kyaw Mya and Nyo Myint; and Tuan Thanh Phan, a Vietnamese national.
DHS Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in the release the men were removed “from American soil so they can never hurt another American victim.” She called the judge’s decision “absurd” and said the men “present a clear and present threat to the safety of the American people.”
The lawyers said the man from Myanmar, identified in court documents as N.M., was delivered a notice in English without an interpreter on Monday, saying he’d be sent to South Sudan, an East African country that the State Department advises U.S. citizens not to travel to due to “continued security threats” that include crime, kidnapping and armed conflict.
There were at least 10 other immigrants on the plane.
I feel sick. South Sudan is a nightmare dysfunctional state in a state of war. Sending anyone there is an act of sheer sadism.
And it looks like they’ve finally just done it. They’ve openly violated a court order. Buckle up.