Overview

• On July 5 Judge Randolph Moss issued a temporary stay that halted the planned removal of eight migrants to South Sudan.
• The day before, the Supreme Court overturned a lower court injunction and approved their deportation from a U.S. base in Djibouti.
• The migrants, detained in converted shipping containers, come from Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and other countries and none are South Sudanese.
• Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented from the Supreme Court’s order, warning the deportees could face torture or death in conflict-ridden South Sudan.
• The case tests President Trump’s strategy of using third-country removals to deter illegal immigration and has drawn criticism from human rights groups and the United Nations over dangerous conditions in South Sudan.