Overview

• U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy denied the administration’s motion for reconsideration after finding it violated his April injunction by boarding eight migrants bound for South Sudan with less than 16 hours’ notice.
• Murphy wrote that government lawyers mischaracterized his earlier order and ‘manufactured chaos’ to avoid providing advance notice and credible fear hearings.
• He retained an option allowing the administration to conduct ‘reasonable fear’ interviews in Djibouti or return the migrants to U.S. soil to comply with due process requirements.
• The judge stressed that the migrants’ criminal histories do not override their constitutional right to notice and an opportunity to contest removal.
• In a separate filing, the administration asked the Supreme Court to lift Murphy’s nationwide injunction and restore its authority to deport migrants to third countries without prior hearings.