The AP, via PBS, confirms the news,
U.S. completes deporting 8 men from various nations to South Sudan after weeks of legal battles.
It took nearly two months and two U.S. Supreme Court decisions, but it finally happened. The Associated Press is not happy,
Eight men deported from the United States in May and held under guard for weeks at an American military base in the African nation of Djibouti while their legal challenges played out in court have now reached the Trump administration’s intended destination, war-torn South Sudan, a country the State Department advises against travel to due to “crime, kidnapping, and armed conflict.”
Did you catch that? South Sudan is not a nice place. These eight “migrants” had all been convicted of violent crimes in the U.S. All eight had “final” orders of removal lodged against them.
Reuters reports that the flight from Djibouti arrived around 6 am local time on Saturday morning. Politico quotes one of the many federal judges to consider the migrants’ plight, who,
said it appeared the men had served their criminal sentences, so the U.S. government shouldn’t be trying to inflict punishment on them at this point. That is the central claim in the suit filed Thursday night: that deporting the eight to South Sudan amounts to additional punishment.
“Punishment”? Deporting illegal aliens amounts to punishment? Hollywood celebrities are fleeing the irredeemably racist, no good, unfair, mean America as fast as they can. I would think anywhere, even South Sudan, would be considered a step up from the United States, where the migrants had already suffered at the hand of the nation’s judicial system.
The Miami Herald poses the question no one is asking,
Has ICE ‘gone too far’ in enforcing immigration laws? Here’s what a poll found:
A major partisan divide was present in the polling.
You don’t say. The Herald reports,
Most Americans believe immigration authorities under President Donald Trump have overstepped the line, according to new polling.
In the latest Marist poll, 54% of respondents said U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement has “gone too far” in enforcing the law. Meanwhile, 18% believe the agency has “not gone far enough,” and 26% describe its actions as “about right.”
Digging into the details.
Eighty percent said they favor deporting people without legal status who have been convicted of a violent crime. This includes 91% of Republicans and 75% of Democrats.
A smaller share, but still a majority, 59%, said they favor deporting undocumented immigrants who have been found guilty of a nonviolent crime.
I hate to get all technical here, but 100 percent of illegal immigrants have committed a nonviolent crime. Does that count? Or do these would-be deportees need to be found guilty of an additional crime to be eligible for removal?
I guess we’ll find out as the One Big Beautiful Bill provides tens of billions of dollars in additional funding for ICE and DHS.
