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U.S. Turns Eight Migrants Over to South Sudan, Ending Weeks of Legal Limbo

Courts blocked the handover after lawyers raised concerns of torture. Then the Supreme Court intervened to allow the Trump administration’s plan to move forward.

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U.S. military base Camp Lemonnier last year. After being held in Djibouti for weeks, eight men were deported to South Sudan.

U.S. Turns Eight Migrants Over to South Sudan, Ending Weeks of Legal Limbo

Courts blocked the handover after lawyers raised concerns of torture. Then the Supreme Court intervened to allow the Trump administration’s plan to move forward.

© Getty Images

U.S. military base Camp Lemonnier last year. After being held in Djibouti for weeks, eight men were deported to South Sudan.
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