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The Supreme Court just stripped thousands of immigrants of their right to due process (Ian Millhiser/Vox)
https://www.vox.com/scotus/417583/supreme-court-convention-torture-deportation-south-sudan-dhs-dvd
http://www.memeorandum.com/250623/p154#a250623p154

Starmer's cuts to overseas aid to boost warmongering.
'Bond, a UK network for international development organisations, said it was clear the government was "deprioritising" funding "for education, gender and countries experiencing humanitarian crises such as South Sudan, Ethiopia and Somalia, and surprisingly (sic) the Occupied Palestinian Territories and Sudan, which the government said would be protected".'
Africa to be hit hard as UK foreign aid…

Africa to be hit hard as UK foreign aid cuts revealed
A Foreign Office report shows the biggest cuts will come in Africa with less spent on women's health and water sanitation.

Tom Homan, the US border czar, has said
he does not know what happened to the eight men deported to South Sudan
after the Trump administration resumed sending migrants to countries that are not their place of origin, known as third countries.
Men from Mexico, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and Myanmar were removed from the US and flown to the war-torn country

Israel in talks to resettle Gaza Palestinians in South Sudan, sources say (Reuters)
https://www.reuters.com/world/middle-east/israel-talks-resettle-gaza-palestinians-south-sudan-sources-say-2025-08-15/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250815/p57#a250815p57

U.S. Turns Eight Migrants Over to South Sudan, Ending Weeks of Legal Limbo - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/05/us/migrants-djibouti-south-sudan.html

South Sudan and Israel
are discussing a deal
to resettle Palestinians
from war-torn Gaza
in the troubled African nation,
three sources told Reuters
- a plan quickly dismissed as unacceptable by Palestinian leaders.
The sources, who have knowledge of the matter but spoke on condition of anonymity,
said no agreement had been reached but talks between South Sudan and Israel were ongoing.
The plan, if carried further,
would envisage pe…

BREAKING
The Supreme Court green lights the Trump admin sending immigrants to war-torn and human-rights abusing South Sudan without process, even though aren't from there.
Background https://www.allrisenews.com/p/update-south-sudan

UPDATE: South Sudan flight violated court order, judge says
A federal judge left arguments about whether the violation was criminally contemptuous for another day.

i'm sorry jane street did _what_ https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2025-06-25/jane-street-s-rob-granieri-says-he-was-duped-into-funding-south-sudan-coup-plot
(paywall free:

The Trump administration abdicated the safety and legal fates of the eight men,
only one of whom is South Sudanese,
to the East African nation.
The men were transported to a hotel in South Sudan’s capital, Juba,
where they are under government supervision, according to Edmund Yakani,
a longtime human rights defender in South Sudan and executive director of the Community Empowerment for Progress Organization, or CEPO. 

Trump Administration Expels Eight Men to War-Torn “Third Country” South Sudan
The Supreme Court is helping Trump expand "third country" deportation — and restrict immigrants’ rights to object for fear of torture.

Won’t someone think of the jackbooted thugs?
“…ICE officers themselves…facing inhumane conditions…showing symptoms of respiratory infections…can’t get proper testing for diagnoses…at risk of rocket attacks from Yemeni terrorists…lack body armor or other protective gear. …Trump…said…judge was ‘literally putting ICE agents’ lives in danger.’
…not quite true…judge never said they had to stay there…officials are ‘manufacturing the…chaos they decry.’”

ICE details dangerous working conditions in Djibouti. But they don’t have to be there.
Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers are laboring under dangerous conditions while maintaining custody over migrants they’re holding at a military base in Djibouti, according to a declaration from an ICE official Thursday.

Why Trump's Admin Insists on Terrorizing Kilmar Abrego Garcia (Rolling Stone)
https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/trump-kilmar-abrego-garcia-el-salvador-south-sudan-1235384278/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250712/p20#a250712p20

Court Rejects Effort to Keep Migrants From Being Sent to South Sudan - The New York Times
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/04/us/politics/trump-migrants-lawsuit-sudan.html

On Thursday the Supreme Court furthered the Trump administration's unprecedented effort to deport immigrants to countries with which they have no ties and where they may face mistreatment -- allowing the regime to transport eight migrants to war-torn South Sudan, where they had no previous connection.
The migrants,
who DHS has alleged have serious criminal convictions,
had been the subject of a lawsuit that halted their deportation to South Sudan and diverted them to a …

Trump administration deports 8 migrants to South Sudan
The migrants were the subject of a lawsuit that halted their deportation.

Judge clears way for U.S. to deport eight men to South Sudan (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/04/trump-south-sudan-deportation-00440024
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p70#a250704p70

Migrants placed on a deportation flight originally bound for South Sudan
are now being held in a converted shipping container on a U.S. naval base in Djibouti,
where the men and their guards are contending with baking hot temperatures, smoke from nearby burn pits and the looming threat of rocket attacks,
the Trump administration said.

Migrants and ICE officers contend with heat, smog and illness after detoured South Sudan flight
The Trump administration said the converted conference room in the shipping container is the only viable place to house the men on the base in Djibouti.

Documenting Patterns of Exoticism of Marginalized Populations within Text-to-Image Generators
Sourojit Ghosh, Sanjana Gautam, Pranav Venkit, Avijit Ghosh
https://arxiv.org/abs/2508.02937

Documenting Patterns of Exoticism of Marginalized Populations within Text-to-Image Generators
A significant majority of AI fairness research studying the harmful outcomes of GAI tools have overlooked non-Western communities and contexts, necessitating a stronger coverage in this vein. We extend our previous work on exoticism (Ghosh et al., 2024) of 'Global South' countries from across the world, as depicted by GAI tools. We analyze generated images of individuals from 13 countries -- India, Bangladesh, Papua New Guinea, Egypt, Ethiopia, Tunisia, Sudan, Libya, Venezuela, Colombia, Indone…

'We find another country': Homan says Trump administration looking to make deals with several countries to accept deportees. (Politico)
https://www.politico.com/news/2025/07/11/homan-says-white-house-hopes-to-forge-more-third-country-deals-in-wake-of-south-sudan-deportations-00448137
http://www.memeorandum.com/250711/p47#a250711p47

Supreme Court Lets Trump Deport Eight Migrants to South Sudan (New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/03/us/politics/supreme-court-migrants-south-sudan.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p110#a250703p110

Supreme Court paves the way for Trump to send migrants to South Sudan (Lawrence Hurley/NBC News)
https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/supreme-court/supreme-court-trump-send-migrants-south-sudan-djibouti-rcna214952
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p130#a250703p130

**Breaking: Judge issues administrative stay stopping South Sudan deportations**
https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-judge-issues-administrative

Trump Administration Poised to Ramp Up Deportations to Distant Countries (Mattathias Schwartz/New York Times)
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/07/13/us/south-sudan-third-country-deportations.html
http://www.memeorandum.com/250713/p7#a250713p7

ICE Said They Were Being Flown to Louisiana. Their Flight Landed in Africa (Nick Turse/The Intercept)
https://theintercept.com/2025/07/08/ice-deportation-louisiana-south-sudan/
http://www.memeorandum.com/250708/p168#a250708p168

The daughter of a woman murdered by a man from Laos who is among those controversially deported from the US to South Sudan
has spoken out about her family’s pain -- but also to decry the lack of rights afforded to those who were expelled to countries other than their own.
Birte Pfleger lives in Los Angeles and was a history student at Cal State University in Long Beach when her parents came to visit her from their native Germany in 1994
-- and ended up shot by Thongxay Nila…

Judge transfers new case challenging South Sudan deportations (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/breaking-judge-issues-administrative
http://www.memeorandum.com/250704/p64#a250704p64

Since Trump took office, Zapata had heard about federal agents showing up even at routine immigration hearings and taking migrants away in handcuffs.
He was afraid of being arrested and sent to a detention facility like the so-called Alligator Alcatraz in Florida,
or to a far-away country
— perhaps El Salvador or South Sudan, where authorities have shipped U.S. deportees in recent months.
“Imagine arriving in Africa with no documents and no money," Zapata said. …

SCOTUS allows Trump admin to send eight men to South Sudan with no process (Chris Geidner/Law Dork)
https://www.lawdork.com/p/scotus-allows-trump-admin-to-send
http://www.memeorandum.com/250703/p123#a250703p123