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The Supreme Court<\/span> on Thursday granted a request<\/a> by the Trump administration to send eight men who have spent more than a month imprisoned on a U.S. military base in Djibouti to war-ravaged South Sudan.<\/p>\n Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissented.<\/p>\n By a 7-2 vote, the justices lifted an order from U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy that had blocked the men\u2019s expulsion to South Sudan. Murphy intervened despite\u00a0a Supreme Court ruling last month\u00a0that put a hold on a prior nationwide injunction he issued requiring the administration to give deportees advance notice of their destination and a \u201cmeaningful\u201d chance to object if they believed they\u2019d be in danger of harm.<\/p>\n The Trump administration accused Murphy of defying the Supreme Court, and the Justice Department asked the justices for a \u201cclarification\u201d that would allow the administration to expel the men.<\/p>\n \u201cIt will only embolden the government to further violate court orders that go against the government.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n<\/figure>\n \u201cThe United States may not deport noncitizens to a country where they are likely to be tortured or killed. International and domestic law guarantee that basic human right,\u201d wrote Sotomayor<\/a> in a bitter dissent. \u201cIn this case, the Government seeks to nullify it by deporting noncitizens to potentially dangerous countries without notice or the opportunity to assert a fear of torture.\u201d<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Neither the United States nor South Sudan has said what will happen to the men \u2013 who hail from Vietnam, South Korea, Mexico, Laos, Cuba and Myanmar; just one is from South Sudan \u2013 on their arrival. For weeks, both governments have ignored requests for comment by The Intercept.<\/p>\n \u201cThe Supreme Court\u2019s ruling rewards the government\u2019s lawlessness by violating the injunction and delaying implementation of the due process protections that district court ordered as a remedy for those violations,\u201d said Trina Realmuto, the executive director of the National Immigration Litigation Alliance and an attorney for the men.\u00a0\u201cIt will only embolden the government to further violate court orders that go against the government.\u201d<\/p>\n A source in South Sudan with high-level government connections worried that the men might be used as political pawns or abused in the country\u2019s notorious prison system. He spoke on the condition of anonymity due the risk of government retribution.<\/p>\n This spring, the U.N. began warning<\/a> about the potential for full-scale civil war to erupt in South Sudan. The State Department issued a \u201cLevel 4: Do Not Travel\u201d advisory for the East African nation in March and \u201cordered departure of non-emergency U.S. government personnel due to continued security threats in South Sudan,\u201d warning Americans: \u201cDo not travel to South Sudan due to\u00a0crime,\u00a0kidnapping,\u00a0and\u00a0armed conflict.\u201d<\/p>\n Last month, the Supreme Court\u00a0ruled that the Trump administration could resume\u00a0expelling immigrants<\/a>\u00a0to countries other than their own without any chance to object on the grounds that they might be tortured.<\/p>\n The court\u2019s recent decisions have been a boon to the administration, which has been\u00a0employing strong-arm tactics with dozens of smaller, weaker, and economically dependent nations to expand its\u00a0global gulag for expelled immigrants<\/a>.\u00a0The administration has explored deals<\/a> with a quarter of the world\u2019s nations to accept so-called third-country nationals \u2014 deported persons who are not their citizens.<\/p>\n The deals are being conducted in secret, and neither the State Department nor U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement will discuss them. With the green light from the Supreme Court, thousands of immigrants are in danger of being disappeared into this network of deportee dumping grounds.<\/p>\n \u201cFire up the deportation planes,\u201d a spokeswoman for the Department of Homeland Security said after the court\u2019s ruling on third-country deportations last month.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n\n