In another case described in Tuesday’s court filings, lawyers attached an email from the wife of a person with a removal order to Vietnam. Per that account, ICE officials told detainees that they were to be sent to South Africa, before returning to correct themselves and tell the group of their true destination: South Sudan.

Progressive legal organizations are suing to stop the Trump administration from winding down the Office for Civil Rights and Civil Liberties as well as two ombudsmen focused on immigration.

U.S. District Judge with the U.S. District Court of Massachusetts Brian Murphy ruled at an emergency hearing Wednesday that the Department of Homeland Security had "unquestionably" violated a court order by flying a group of migrants to South Sudan.

It’s the latest example of brazen defiance of the courts from the Trump administration. After an emergency hearing last evening, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy for the District of Massachusetts will hold another hearing at 11 a.m. ET over the removals and a motion from defense attorneys in the case to halt the operation.

the remedy order states The DHS, the order continues, may choose to conduct the process in South Sudan or return them to the United States. "The Court cautions Defendants that this remedy should ...