Homeland Security said Saturday that it has finally deported eight illegal immigrants — all of them with serious criminal records — to South Sudan, moving to complete the removals after the Supreme Court gave permission.
The eight migrants had been stuck living in a shipping container converted to a holding cell at a U.S. military base in Djibouti while their fate played out in U.S. courtrooms.
But the Supreme Court on Thursday issued a ruling lifting a lower court’s blockade on carrying out their deportations, giving Homeland Security the space to finally drop them in one of the world’s most dangerous nations.
“These sickos were finally deported to South Sudan on Independence Day,” said Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin.
The migrants are Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Quinones, a Cuban convicted of attempted murder; Enrique Arias-Hierro, a Cuban convicted of homicide and kidnapping; Thongxay Nilakout, a Laotian convicted of murder; Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, a Mexican