Widespread Concerns on Rumour of US Deporting Illegal Immigrants to South Sudan

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The US administration said it had expelled eight immigrants convicted of violent crimes in the U.S. but refused to say where they would end up. If South Sudan is the confirmed destination, that means people from Vietnam, Mexico and elsewhere are being sent to a nation they have no link to, thousands of miles from where they want to be.

An analyst felt that the Trump administration’s actions in reportedly deporting immigrants to South Sudan may set an “extremely dangerous precedent.”

The comments from Hassan Khannenje, Director at HORN International Institute for Strategic Studies, come as the United States is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam and Cuba to South Sudan, a chaotic country that’s once again in danger of collapsing into civil war.

The US administration said it had expelled eight immigrants convicted of violent crimes in the U.S. but refused to say where they would end up. If South Sudan is the confirmed destination, that means people from Vietnam, Mexico and elsewhere are being sent to a nation they have no link to, thousands of miles from where they want to be.

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A US federal judge said recently that the White House violated a court order on deportations to third countries with the flight linked to South Sudan, hours after the Trump administration said it had expelled eight immigrants convicted of violent crimes in the United States.