Contempt of Court says Judge

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https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/20/judge-migrants-south-sudan

Judge orders US officials to keep custody of migrants flown to South Sudan
Brian Murphy says deportations appear to flout court order and says ‘if they want to turn the plane around, they can’

A federal judge on Tuesday ordered the Trump administration to not let a group of migrants being flown to South Sudan leave the custody of US immigration authorities after saying they appeared to have been deported in violation of a court order.

US district judge Brian Murphy in Boston during a hastily arranged virtual hearing said that while he was not going to order the airplane to turn around, that was an option the Department of Homeland Security could employ to comply with his order.

Murphy warned that officials could be held in criminal contempt if he found they violated his previous order barring the swift deportation of migrants to countries other than their own before they could raise any concerns that they might face torture or persecution there.

“I have a strong indication that my preliminary injunction order has been violated,” Murphy told Elianis Perez, a lawyer with the Department of Justice.