According to the reports, a flight with eight migrants left Texas this week, headed to South Sudan, will now remain in the country of Djibouti of East Africa for two weeks to comply with a court order, the White House spokeswoman said Thursday, Karoline Leavitt.
During an informative press session, Leavitt blamed the judge of the United States District Court, Brian Murphy, in Massachusetts, after a hearing on Wednesday after eight people from Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, Mexico and South Sudan had been deported to a third country. The lawyers said the flight was heading to South Sudan, but the National Security Department says it will not confirm.
Murphy had said at the hearing that the Trump administration violated a previous court order that prevented people from being sent to countries other than their own opportunities to express their fears of torture or persecution or without adequate notification in advance.
Murphy ordered that people receive legal advice and the opportunity to increase their fears. He also ordered the deportees to receive at least 15 days to reopen immigration procedures and challenge their deportation in case the Government is still aim of sending them to a third country.
Leavitt said Murphy’s order was an attempt to “bring these monsters back to our country.”
“Now Judge Murphy is forcing federal officials to remain in Djibouti for more than two weeks threatening our US diplomatic relations with countries around the world and endangering the lives of agents by having to be with these illegal murderers, criminals and rapists,” Leavitt said.
Leavitt, who declared the criminal names and background of the eight people on the flight, described Murphy’s order as a “massive judicial overreach.”
“It cannot control the foreign policy or national security of the United States of America, and suggesting otherwise it is to be completely absurd,” he said.
Murphy had transmitted the sequence of events that led to deportations after a procedure sealed Wednesday, saying that migrants were notified of their destination “at some point in the night” on Monday, outside business hours. He added that they left the ice facilities en route to an airport near the next morning at 9:35 ct.
Without enough time to consult a lawyer or relatives, the judge said, it was impossible for migrants to challenge their deportations to a third country.
“The actions of the department,” Murphy said, “unquestionably they violate the order of this court.”
