A group of eight migrants are being held in the small African country of Djibouti after a judge said the Trump administration's attempt to fly them to South Sudan "unquestionably" violated a court order,

Eight people from Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, Mexico and South Sudan were on a flight reportedly intended for South Sudan this week.

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,

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 federal judge in Boston has told the Trump administration it must to maintain custody of migrants whom the US government has allegedly flown to South Sudan or other countries in recent days amid heightened concerns over the administration’s aggressive approach to deportations.

Immigration authorities refused to say what their final destinations would be, but said their home countries had refused to receive the migrants.

The Department of Homeland Security under President Donald Trump is preparing to deport a plane full of migrants from various countries to South Sudan — a nation teetering on the brink of civil war — defying a court order to do so,

A homeland security official said on Wednesday that the United States is seeking to deport eight migrants convicted of serious crimes including homicides but declined to confirm an allegation raised in federal court that they were bound for South Sudan.