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Homeland Security reports eight migrants were deported to South Sudan from Djibouti.

The Department of Homeland Security announced on Saturday that the Trump administration deported eight migrants to South Sudan who were held by the U.S. for more than one month at a Djibouti military base. This was after the migrants failed to stop their transfer in a last ditch effort.

Two officials at Juba Airport said that an aircraft carrying U.S. citizens deported from the United States arrived in South Sudan Saturday.

Unidentified airport staffer said he saw a document that showed the aircraft had "arrived today morning at 6:00am" (0400 GMT). A second immigration official confirmed that the deportees were in the country, but did not provide any further information. He referred all questions to National Security Service.

A source from the South Sudanese government said that U.S. officials were at the airport waiting for the arrival of the migrants.

The fate of these migrants has become a hot topic in the debate over the legality and effectiveness of Trump's immigration campaign, which involves high-profile deportations of migrants to "third countries", where they claim to be at risk of harm. This issue has been taken to two Supreme Courts.

South Sudan is dangerous, even for the locals. U.S. State Department warns Americans not to travel to South Sudan due to violence and armed conflict. The United Nations warned that the African country's current political crisis could rekindle a brutal civil conflict that ended in 2018.

Eight men from Cuba, Laos Mexico, Myanmar, Sudan, and Vietnam were deported to South Sudan, according to their attorneys, because it would be a violation of the U.S. Constitution which prohibits cruel or unusual punishment.

The Americans had been in custody in Djibouti ever since a Boston federal judge blocked the Trump administration in May from moving them immediately to South Sudan due to concerns about due process.

The Supreme Court of Canada on Thursday ruled that additional litigation was necessary following the Supreme Court's ruling.

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The courts were closed on July 4th for Independence Day, so two courts heard the emergency requests of the lawyers for migrants on Friday. However, U.S. district judge Brian Murphy said that the Supreme Court's order forced him to deny the request, allowing their deportation.

It was not immediately clear where the men were located in South Sudan following their arrival.

(source: Reuters)