The Department of Homeland Security on Saturday confirmed it transferred the 8 illegal aliens who were stuck in Djibouti to South Sudan after a legal showdown.
The deportation flight landed in South Sudan just after midnight ET on Friday after a judge denied an emergency claim filed by the plaintiffs’ attorneys.
NEWS: The Trump administration deported a group of men with serious criminal convictions to South Sudan, following the end of a legal saga that had kept them at a U.S. base in Djibouti for weeks, DHS assistant secretary Tricia McLaughlin tells CBS News.
Photo courtesy of DHS. pic.twitter.com/BsYogj6F4x
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Drama over the deportation flight began unfolding on Friday after an Obama-appointed judge temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from flying 8 illegals from Djibouti to South Sudan.
The US government doesn’t even have a detention facility in Djibouti, so 11 ICE agents are detaining the aliens in a conference room in a converted Conex shipping container on the US Naval base in Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti.
As previously reported, just hours after the Supreme Court issued a ruling, Judge Randolph Moss temporarily blocked the Trump Administration from transferring the 8 illegal aliens stuck in Djibouti to South Sudan.
Judge Moss held an emergency hearing earlier Friday before a flight scheduled for 7 pm departed Djibouti to transfer the illegals to South Sudan.
Some of the aliens are from Laos, Vietnam, and Cuba, so sending them to South Sudan puts them in danger, attorneys argued.
These criminal alien killers and rapists are so dangerous that their own home countries refused to take them back so the Trump Administration deported them to South Sudan.
Judge Moss punted the case to a district court in Massachusetts with Biden-appointed Judge Brian Murphy (the original judge assigned to the case) and gave the plaintiffs’ attorneys one hour to file their emergency claim.
Later Friday with just an hour to go until the plane in Djibouti was set to depart, Judge Brian Murphy denied the plaintiffs’ emergency motion to stop the transfer to South Sudan.
Judge Murphy said the Supreme Court already granted the Trump Administration relief on this matter.
“This Court interprets these Supreme Court orders as binding on this new petition, as Petitioners are now raising substantially similar claims, and therefore Petitioners motion is denied,” the judge wrote.
UPDATE: Judge Murphy denies the emergency motion — it appears the men will be South Sudan-bound within the hour. He lays it at the feet of the Supreme Court. https://t.co/WogwiK90PU pic.twitter.com/DXwh876RMF
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“After weeks of delays by activist judges that put our law enforcement in danger, ICE deported these 8 barbaric criminal illegal aliens who are so heinous even their own countries will not accept them,” the DHS said.
“This was a win for the rule of law, safety and security of the American people. We thank our brave ICE law enforcement for their sacrifice to defend our freedoms,” the DHS said.
“We will continue to fight for the freedoms of Americans while these activists continue to try and force us to bring murderers, pedophiles, and rapists back to the U.S.,” they added.
After weeks of delays by activist judges that put our law enforcement in danger, ICE deported these 8 barbaric criminal illegal aliens who are so heinous even their own countries will not accept them.
This was a win for the rule of law, safety and security of the American… pic.twitter.com/h40kmczv0z
— Homeland Security (@DHSgov) July 5, 2025
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