• Daily Dose of WTF
  • Posts
  • Deporting to a WAR ZONE?! Trump Admin Allegedly Ships SE Asians to... SOUTH SUDAN

Deporting to a WAR ZONE?! Trump Admin Allegedly Ships SE Asians to... SOUTH SUDAN

In a new low for deportation cruelty, lawyers claim the Trump admin is sending people from Myanmar and Vietnam to war-torn South Sudan, violating court orders and basic humanity.

May 20, 2025

I genuinely don't even know where to start with this one, because the level of WTF is just off the charts. We've talked about deportations to El Salvador's "tropical gulag," the bizarre (and thankfully blocked) plan to send Southeast Asian immigrants to Libya. But now, according to court documents filed by immigration attorneys, the Trump administration appears to have begun deporting people from Myanmar and Vietnam to SOUTH SUDAN.

Yes, South Sudan. The country that has endured repeated, devastating waves of violence since its independence, where the top U.N. official just weeks ago warned that fighting threatened to spiral again into full-scale civil war. The place the U.S. State Department's own report details "significant human rights issues" including arbitrary killings, disappearances, and torture by security forces. The nation so unsafe that DHS itself grants Temporary Protected Status (TPS) to South Sudanese already in the US because it's too dangerous for them to return.

And this is where the Trump administration is allegedly sending people from Southeast Asia, who have absolutely no connection to the country.

According to the AP report, lawyers told a federal judge that immigration authorities may have sent up to a dozen people from several Asian countries to Africa. The apparent removal of one man from Myanmar was reportedly confirmed in an email from an immigration official in Texas. He was allegedly informed of this life-altering decision only in English, a language he doesn't speak well, with his attorneys finding out just hours before his deportation flight. Another woman reported her husband from Vietnam, along with up to 10 others, were flown to Africa on Tuesday morning.

This isn't just cruel; it's almost certainly illegal and in direct violation of existing court orders. Attorneys are arguing these removals "blatantly" defy a ruling by Massachusetts District Judge Brian E. Murphy. Judge Murphy previously found that any migrants deported to countries other than their homelands must first be given a "meaningful opportunity" to argue that such a removal would jeopardize their safety. He specifically stated that any "allegedly imminent" removals to Libya (a similarly war-torn nation) would "clearly violate this Court's Order," a ruling that applies here. A hearing in that case is set for today.

The Trump administration has a pattern of seeking third-country agreements to offload deportees, especially from nations that won't readily accept their own citizens back from the U.S. We've seen deals with Panama, Costa Rica, and the infamous El Salvador prison arrangement. But sending people from Asia to South Sudan – a country teetering on the brink of another massive internal conflict and rife with human rights abuses – represents a new level of recklessness and disregard for human life.

The conditions in South Sudan are so dire that the U.N. peacekeeping chief described the situation as "darkly reminiscent of the 2013 and 2016 conflicts, which took over 400,000 lives."

What possible justification could there be for this? Is it just about getting people out of the U.S., no matter the cost or the destination's stability? Is it a deliberate attempt to circumvent court orders by choosing a destination so remote and chaotic that legal recourse becomes nearly impossible?

The Department of Homeland Security and the White House did not immediately comment to the AP.

This isn't just an "anti-immigration platform," as the article notes; this is actively endangering people by allegedly sending them into a recognized conflict zone with a horrific human rights record, a place where even its own citizens are sometimes granted protection from deportation by the US. The cruelty, the illegality, the sheer WTF absurdity of it all is breathtaking.

Source: