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The Trump administration<\/span> succeeded in its quest to deport the eight men it imprisoned on a U.S. military base in Djibouti to violence-plagued South Sudan on Saturday, expanding its globe-spanning effort<\/a> to banish immigrants to so-called third countries.\u00a0<\/p>\n \u201cAfter weeks of delays by activist judges that put our law enforcement in danger, ICE deported these 8 barbaric criminals [sic] illegal aliens to South Sudan,\u201d Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin told The Intercept in an email. The Trump administration reveled in a Thursday 7-2 Supreme Court decision granting its request<\/a> to expel the men from Camp Lemonnier to the restive East African nation.<\/p>\n Their deportation marked a dramatic win for the Trump administration\u2019s efforts to exile immigrants to countries other than the ones they hail from and which are notorious for violence and human rights violations.<\/p>\n More than a decade of intermittent political turmoil and outright civil war has left South Sudan politically unstable and ravaged by violence. Recent clashes between armed groups drove 165,000 people to flee their homes in three months, according to a June United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees report<\/a>. The country is subject to a U.N. warning<\/a>\u00a0about the potential for full-scale civil war and a U.S. State Department \u201cLevel 4: Do Not Travel\u201d advisory.\u00a0<\/p>\n The Trump administration abdicated the safety and legal fates of the eight men, only one of whom is South Sudanese, to the East African nation. The men were transported to a hotel in South Sudan\u2019s capital, Juba, where they are under government supervision, according to Edmund Yakani, a longtime human rights defender in South Sudan and executive director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization, or CEPO.\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n <\/p>\n Yakani told The Intercept that the men arrived by U.S. military flight on July 5 around 5 a.m. local time. A photo of the men<\/a> released by DHS shows them onboard a transport plane, handcuffed and shackled at the feet, surrounded by camouflage-uniformed personnel.<\/p>\n \u201cDHS deported these eight men to South Sudan, one of the most dangerous countries on the planet, without any opportunity to contest their deportations based on their fears of torture or death there. The U.S. State Department advises people to draft a will and to establish a proof of life protocol before traveling there,\u201d Trina Realmuto, a lawyer for the immigrants in the case and executive director at National Immigration Litigation Alliance, told The Intercept.\u00a0<\/p>\n Thursday\u2019s Supreme Court ruling allowing the transfer added to a recent spate of decisions that have paved the way for the Trump administration\u2019s mass deportation regime \u2014 and have restricted immigrants\u2019 rights to object on the grounds that they might be tortured or killed. With Justices Sonia Sotomayor and Ketanji Brown Jackson dissenting, the court lifted an order from U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy that had\u00a0blocked the men\u2019s expulsion\u00a0<\/a>to South Sudan.\u00a0<\/p>\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 Sotomayor wrote<\/a>\u00a0in 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\u00a0<\/p>\n <\/p>\n