Eight migrants deported from Djibouti to South Sudan, Homeland Security says


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  • Sunday, 06 Jul 2025

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WASHINGTON/NAIROBI (Reuters) -The Trump administration has deported to South Sudan eight migrants who had been held for more than a month by the U.S. at a military base in Djibouti, the Department of Homeland Security said on Saturday, after the migrants lost a last-ditch effort to halt their transfer to the politically unstable country.

The men were deported on Friday, the July 4 Independence Day holiday in the U.S., Assistant Secretary Tricia McLaughlin said in a press release.

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