Thread: Trump admin sends 8 ‘barbaric’ illegal migrants to South Sudan — even though only one

Trump admin sends 8 ‘barbaric’ illegal migrants to South Sudan — even though only one is from there in shock decision

By Jennie Taer and Emily Crane
Published May 21, 2025, 1:32 p.m. ET

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The Trump administration said it has deported at least eight violent illegal migrants to one of the poorest nations on Earth — with their crimes being so “monstrous and barbaric” that no other country apparently would take them, a Trump administration official told The Post Wednesday.
The migrants were put on a flight to South Sudan — a violence-plagued African country — over the objections of a federal judge.
South Sudanese officials have also objected to the flight.
Of the eight felons, only one is a native of South Sudan. The others are from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar and Vietnam.
“We conducted a deportation flight from Texas to remove some of the most barbaric, violent individuals illegally in the United States,” Homeland Security said in an X post announcing the latest migrant removals.

“No country on earth wanted to accept them because their crimes are so uniquely monstrous and barbaric.”
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The migrants — who were convicted of crimes ranging from murder to child sex abuse — were all recently shipped off to the African nation, a senior administration official said.
It wasn’t immediately clear whether the flight had arrived in South Sudan. The New York Times reported the plane carrying the migrants had temporarily landed at a US military base in Djibouti.

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(Clockwise from top left) Enrique Arias-Hierro, Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Quinones, Thongxay Nilakout, Jesus Munoz-Gutierrez, Tuan Thanh Phan, Nyo Myint, Kyaw Mya, and Dian Peter Domach were all deported to South Sudan, an official said.

Among the deportees was Nyo Myint, a Burmese sex offender, who was convicted of first-degree sexual assault involving a victim mentally and physically incapable of resisting. He was sentenced to 12 years in prison over the 2017 assault in Nebraska, officials said.
Thongxay Nilakout, a citizen of Laos, was also booted from the US after serving a nearly three-decade sentence for the brutal 1994 execution of a German tourist in California, according to the officials.
News of the deportations emerged after a federal judge ruled late Tuesday that US officials must retain custody and control of migrants removed to the African country — or any other — in case he rules that their removals were unlawful.

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Among them was Nyo Myint, a Burmese sex offender.

Department of Homeland Security / XUS District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Massachusetts handed down the ruling after immigration advocates said the Trump administration had started booting the migrants — despite a court order restricting removals to other countries.
The attorneys had argued the deportation flights violated a court order saying people must get a “meaningful opportunity” to argue that sending them to a country outside their homeland would be a threat to their safety.
Department of Homeland Security spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin insisted Wednesday that the administration was acting lawfully and had given “plenty of prior notice” to the migrants and their attorneys about their deportations.

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Thongxay Nilakout, a citizen of Laos, was also booted from the US after serving a nearly three-decade sentence for the brutal 1994 execution of a German tourist in California.

Department of Homeland Security / X“It is absolutely absurd for a district judge to try to dictate the foreign policy and national security of the United States,” McLaughlin said.
Meanwhile, police in South Sudan said earlier Wednesday that no migrants had yet arrived in the country.
Maj. Gen. James Monday Enoka said that if any migrants did touch down, they would be investigated and “re-deported to their correct country” if they’re found not to be South Sudanese.
With Post wires

US deports 8 'monstrous and barbaric' illegal migrants to South Sudan: official

Trump Admin Deports Eight Scumbags To South Sudan, Fines Another $1.8 Million

By William Teach May 22, 2025 – 6:45 am

I doubt the Trump admin will send that many more to South Sudan, but, not because a squishy judge said don’t do this

Trump admin sends 8 ‘barbaric’ illegal migrants to South Sudan — even though only one is from there in shock decision
The Trump administration said it has deported at least eight violent illegal migrants to one of the poorest nations on Earth — with their crimes being so “monstrous and barbaric” that no other country apparently would take them, a Trump administration official told The Post Wednesday.
The migrants were put on a flight to South Sudan — a violence-plagued African country — over the objections of a federal judge.
South Sudanese officials have also objected to the flight.
Of the eight felons, only one is a native of South Sudan. The others are from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar and Vietnam.
“We conducted a deportation flight from Texas to remove some of the most barbaric, violent individuals illegally in the United States,” Homeland Security said in an X post announcing the latest migrant removals.

Murderers, child abusers, one sexually assaulted a disabled lady. South Sudan says they haven’t landed yet, and would be deported to their home countries. Will the Trump admin send more?

Trump administration fined this low-income migrant $1.8 million
Wendy Ortiz was surprised to find out she was being fined by U.S. immigration authorities for being in the country illegally – but it was the amount that truly shocked her: $1.8 million.
Ortiz, 32, who earns $13 an hour in her job at a meatpacking plant in Pennsylvania, has lived in the United States for a decade, after fleeing El Salvador to escape a violent ex-partner and gang threats, she said in an interview and in immigration paperwork. Her salary barely covers rent and expenses for her autistic 6-year-old U.S.-citizen son.
“It’s not fair,” she said. “Where is someone going to find that much money?”
In the last few weeks, U.S. President Donald Trump has started to operationalize a plan to fine migrants who fail to leave the U.S. after a final deportation order, issuing notices to 4,500 migrants with penalties totaling more than $500 million, a senior Trump official said, requesting anonymity to share internal figures.
Reuters spoke with eight immigration lawyers around the country who said their clients had been fined from several thousand dollars to just over $1.8 million.

In other words, she’s living on the public dole, and has a final deportation order, as do others. And she doesn’t get to whine about fair. She’s been here illegally

The Trump administration plan, details of which were first reported by Reuters in April, include levying fines of $998 per day for migrants who failed to leave the U.S. after a deportation order.
The administration planned to issue fines retroactively for up to five years, Reuters reported. Under that framework, the maximum would be $1.8 million. The government would then consider seizing the property of immigrants who could not pay.

This is all based on a 1996 law which enacted this. But, do Los Federales actually expect to get the money? Surely not. This is an incentive for illegals to leave. They do not have to go to their home countries: they can go elsewhere. Go to Canada.
Both of these are meant to get illegals to self deport.

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So Trump is refusing to demand that Mexico take their citizens back who are illegally in the US?