Judge rules Trump administration violated court order with migrant flight to Africa

Judge rules Trump administration violated court order with migrant flight to Africa


A federal judge ruled that the Trump administration violated an order he issued last month barring officials from deporting people to countries they are not from without first giving them an adequate chance to object to their removal.

The decision from Judge Brian E. Murphy came after a hearing in Boston to consider an emergency motion filed by lawyers on behalf of a group of men who they said were being deported and sent to South Sudan.

When the hearing began, officials from the Department of Homeland Security said eight immigrants were deported Tuesday on a flight. The officials did not say which country the men were being sent to.

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Murphy said the government gave the deported men just over 24 hours’ notice that they were

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