The migrants were the subject of a lawsuit that halted their deportation to South Sudan and diverted them to a U.S. military base in Djibouti.

Tom Homan said immigrants deported to South Sudan are no longer in United States Custody, and that he doesn't know if they are being detained there.

While the Supreme Court issued rulings demanding the Trump administration respect immigrants’ right to due process and undo Abrego Garcia’s unlawful deportation to El Salvador, the court’s conservative supermajority recently greenlit the president’s efforts to send immigrants to third countries, or countries that are not their own.

The eight deported men had been convicted of violent crimes, according to the Department of Homeland Security.

The Trump administration will be able to send eight migrants held in Djibouti for weeks to South Sudan, where they fear they will face violence, after a flurry of court activity on Friday.

The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport a group of migrants with criminal records held at a U.S. base in Djibouti; the administration says they'll be sent to South Sudan.

A federal judge in Boston rejected a final plea Friday from the immigrants’ lawyers, saying the Supreme Court authorized the transfers.

The Trump administration deported eight migrants convicted of various crimes to South Sudan after weeks of legal back-and-forth between district courts, the Justice Department, and ultimately the Supreme Court,

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the the Trump administration to deport to South Sudan a group of migrants that have been held for weeks on a military base in Djibouti.

The Trump administration said it deported a group of eight men convicted of serious crimes in the United States to the conflict-ridden African country of South Sudan, following a legal saga that had kept the deportees stuck in a military base in Djibouti for weeks.