Attorneys for the migrants told the judge that immigration authorities may have sent as many as a dozen people from several countries to Africa.

Judge Brian Murphy previously ruled the Trump administration could not deport people to third countries without giving them a “meaningful” opportunity to protest their deportation.

The United States once cheered the creation of South Sudan as an independent nation. Now the U.S. is being asked to explain why it appears to be deporting migrants from as far away as Vietnam to a chaotic country that's once again in danger of collapsing into civil war.