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On the recordJuly 3, 2025
What the Government wants to do, concretely, is send the eight noncitizens it illegally removed from the United States from Djibouti to South Sudan, where they will be turned over to the local authorities without regard for the likelihood that they will face torture or death.
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Sonia Sotomayor
New York

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Sotomayor expresses concern over the deportation's potential consequences for the migrants.

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