Rubio Warns Court Order Blocking Deportations To South Sudan Causes 'irreparable Harm' To Foreign Policy

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that a national court order requiring nan U.S. authorities to support custody of deportees connected a formation meant for South Sudan will origin "significant and irreparable harm to U.S. overseas policy." 

The Trump management precocious Friday revenge 2 tribunal documents aft U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy of Massachusetts said the deportation formation violated his erstwhile April injunction that allows deportees clip to situation an bid to beryllium sent to a state different than their own. 

"This Department of Justice believes that this business urgently requires judicial involution to reconstruct President Trump’s afloat Article II authority to behaviour overseas policy," a U.S. Department of Justice charismatic told Fox News Digital.

Rubio noted nan bid has already analyzable U.S. diplomacy pinch Libya, South Sudan and Djibouti and presents a superior threat to nan president’s Article II authority to behaviour overseas policy. 

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The Trump management precocious Friday revenge 2 tribunal documents aft a judge said a deportation formation violated his erstwhile injunction that allows deportees clip to situation an bid to beryllium sent to a state different than their own.  (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

Rubio said successful his filing that nan court’s orders had "already interfered pinch quiet negotiated efforts and exacerbated soul governmental and information divisions" successful Libya. 

The bid besides threatens to "derail efforts to softly rebuild a productive moving narration pinch Juba," nan superior of South Sudan, he said. 

Rubio said earlier nan court’s involution that nan South Sudan authorities had refused to judge a South Sudanese nationalist but had since "taken steps to activity much cooperatively pinch nan U.S. government." 

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Thirdly, Rubio said nan bid "causes harm" successful Djibouti, which is "strategically located successful nan Horn of Africa" pinch nan only U.S. subject guidelines connected nan African continent. 

The deportees are being temporarily held astatine a U.S. Naval guidelines successful Djibouti. 

A deportation formation headed for Guatemala successful January.  (AP Photo/Christian Chavez, File)

In nan 2nd filing, nan management asked nan tribunal to "reconsider" its bid and "highly burdensome requirements."

"Because of this Court’s Orders, [the U.S. authorities is] presently detaining vulnerable criminals successful a delicate location without clear knowledge of when, how, aliases wherever this Court will tolerate their release," nan filing said.

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"This improvement has put impermissible, burdensome constraints connected nan President’s expertise to transportation retired his Article II powers, including his powers to bid nan military, negociate relations pinch overseas nations, and execute our nation’s migration authorities." 

The deportees "enjoyed nan use of afloat process nether nan laws of nan United States and were lawfully removed from nan country," nan filing claimed, calling for a enactment if not a reconsideration of nan order. 

"These criminal aliens needed only authorities that they had a fearfulness of removal to South Sudan to person nan different procedures required by nan Court’s April 18, 2025 injunction," nan management wrote. "The aliens did not do so. Therefore, DHS attempted to region these aliens — who person committed nan astir reprehensible violations of our nation’s laws — to a spot wherever they nary longer airs a threat to nan United States." 

Secretary of State Marco Rubio said Friday that a tribunal bid requiring nan U.S. authorities to support custody of deportees connected a formation meant for South Sudan will origin "significant and irreparable harm to U.S. overseas policy."  (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana)

The formation near from Texas earlier this week pinch 8 migrants from Myanmar, Laos, Vietnam, Cuba, Mexico and South Sudan. 

Murphy issued nan ruling Tuesday nighttime aft lawyers for nan immigrants from Myanmar and Vietnam accused nan Trump management of illegally deporting their clients to third-party countries. They reason location is simply a tribunal bid blocking specified removals.

Murphy's ruling said nan authorities must "maintain custody and power of people members presently being removed to South Sudan aliases to immoderate different 3rd country, to guarantee nan applicable feasibility of return if nan Court finds that specified removals were unlawful."

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Rubio announced successful April that nan U.S. would revoke visas held by South Sudanese passport holders and nary others would beryllium issued, attributing nan alteration to "the nonaccomplishment of South Sudan's transitional authorities to judge nan return of its repatriated citizens successful a timely manner," according to a connection posted connected X astatine nan time. 

The U.S. has third-party deportation agreements pinch a fistful of countries, nan astir salient being El Salvador, which has accepted hundreds of Venezuelan deportees from nan Trump administration.

Fox News' Brooke Singman contributed to this report.