The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the U.S. is being asked to explain ...

Legal battle over deportation of immigrants with serious crimes to South Sudan continues as judge considers if their removal violates court orders.

By Abdi Latif Dahir Reporting from Nairobi, Kenya Riek Machar, the vice president of South Sudan, has been detained at his residence in an upscale neighborhood of the capital, Juba, since March.

The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the U.S. is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam to a ...

BOSTON — The Trump administration “unquestionably” violated a court order when it put seven men on a deportation flight bound for South Sudan, a federal judge ruled Wednesday, suggesting ...

Lawyers for some of the eight migrants deported Tuesday said they were told they were being sent to South Sudan. People familiar with the flight said it had landed for the time being in Djibouti.

A federal judge has ordered U.S. officials to appear at an emergency hearing to answer questions about their apparent ...

After a deportation flight with eight migrants left Texas reportedly intended for South Sudan this week, a federal judge on Wednesday ruled that the Trump administration had violated a previous order.

The migrants’ home countries — Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and South Sudan — would not take them back, according to Todd Lyons, the acting director of Immigration and Customs ...

But they refused to publicly say where the men were being taken. Lawyers said the plane had been headed to strife-torn South Sudan. U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts said that ...

The Trump administration has deported at least two immigrants to war-torn South Sudan in defiance of a federal court order, according to attorneys for the immigrants. The two men are originally ...