The foreign men convicted of crimes who were placed on a deportation flight headed for the chaotic nation of South Sudan were originally from countries as far away as Mexico and Vietnam. They had lived in various places from California to Iowa, Nebraska to Florida, with one serving a sentence of nearly 30 years.

A judge ruled that the Trump administration's deportations of eight men convicted of violent crimes to South Sudan was "unquestionably violative of this Court's order."

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt ripped a federal judge who has prevented a group of immigrants from being deported to a third country, this time South Sudan. “A liberal activist district court judge in the city of Boston,