Trump administration deports two Asian immigrants to South Sudan, a country in conflict

According to its lawyers, the Trump administration deported two Asian immigrants detained in Texas to clashing countries in South Sudan, violating court orders.

The men were a man from Myanmar and another from Vietnam who was informed on Monday at an official at the Port of Isabel Detention Center in Los Fresnos, Texas that they would be moved to South Africa. According to court records, the people refused to sign the order. The officers quickly cancelled it, only to return another order saying they would be handed over to South Sudan. Again, the man did not have an autograph. The next morning, their lawyers and family were unable to find them, according to court documents.

The accounts came from an application filed by the court, filed an emergency motion to U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts to return the people. Murphy has ordered the government to stop any third-country removal after he tried to deport a group of 13 people to Libya earlier this month. At the time, Murphy warned that the government would violate previous court orders and that officials must provide due process for detainees,,,,, Including receiving notices of deletion in their own language and having the opportunity to argue that sending them out of their country could threaten their safety.

The Department of Homeland Security did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Jacqueline Brown, who represents a Burmese man, identified as NM in court documents, wrote that her client had been part of the organization before deporting it to Libya before stopping. She dated NM at 9 a.m. Tuesday, but he left when she checked the detainee locator service to find him. She wrote about an immigration official asking for the whereabouts of NM and was told that he had been removed from office to South Sudan this morning.

According to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees, Eastern African countries are trapped in armed conflict and the world's third largest refugee crisis. As of 2023, 2.3 million people fled to neighboring countries and 2.2 million people were displaced within.

"Armed conflicts between various politics and races are still around the country," the State Department said in a consultation.

The Burmese spoke in Karen's regional language and eventually ordered the evacuation from Nebraska, the site of about 8,000 refugees in Myanmar, ruled by a military dictatorship. Many refugees came from the Karen minority who escaped the protracted civil war.

According to his spouse, the Vietnamese man has signed an order to deport him back to Vietnam. The spouse told lawyers in the Northwest Immigration Rights Project that he was detained with 10 other immigrants (from Laos, Thailand, Pakistan, South Korea and Mexico).

"Please help!" said the man's spouse. "They can't be allowed to do this, it's not the first, and if they continue to get rid of this, it won't be the last. I beg for your help."

"The detention center is overcrowded and the ice is sending people everywhere to fight overcrowding. That's not right,"