South Sudan repatriates Mexican man deported from US

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A Mexican man deported from the US and sent to South Sudan returned to Mexico on Saturday, in line with South Sudanese officers.

Ambassador Apuk Ayuel Mayen, spokesperson for South Sudan’s Ministry of Overseas Affairs, confirmed J. Jesus Muñoz Gutierrez’s “easy and orderly” departure throughout a press convention at Juba Worldwide Airport on Saturday.

Muñoz was launched into the custody of the Mexican ambassador-designate to South Sudan, Alejandro Estivill, Mayen stated. CNN has reached out to Mexico’s Overseas Ministry for remark.

Addressing reporters in Juba earlier than stepping aboard a aircraft, Muñoz stated he “felt kidnapped” by the US when he was despatched to South Sudan.

“I used to be not planning to come back to South Sudan, however whereas I used to be right here, they handled me properly,” Muñoz informed reporters. “I completed my time in america, they usually had been purported to return me to Mexico. As a substitute, they wrongfully despatched me to South Sudan.”

CNN has reached out to the US Division of Homeland Safety for touch upon Muñoz’ characterization of his deportation.

Muñoz was certainly one of eight folks deported from the US and despatched to east Africa in Could. He and the opposite deportees had been initially diverted to Djibouti , the place they had been held in a transformed Conex delivery container on a army base whereas the Trump administration fought for greater than a month in federal court docket to ship them to South Sudan.

Legal professionals for the eight detainees – who got here from Cuba, Laos, Vietnam and different international locations, together with Mexico - had argued that they might face harmful bodily circumstances in South Sudan, which has struggled with intercommunal violence since its independence in 2011.

By early July, a Supreme Court ruling and a subsequent interpretation by a federal court docket in Massachusetts allowed the federal government to ship the eight to the war-torn east African nation.

“Legislation and order prevails,” Division of Homeland Safety spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said on X following the choice.

Six of the eight unique deportees stay in custody in South Sudan, Mayen stated, and the South Sudanese authorities is working with their respective house governments to repatriate them. One deportee, a South Sudanese citizen, was freed earlier, the Related Press reported Saturday.

Past South Sudan, the Trump administration can be coordinating US deportations with different African international locations together with Rwanda, Uganda and Eswatini . Whereas Rwanda lately reached an settlement to soak up as much as 250 migrants deported from the US, Uganda has publicly insisted it'll solely settle for restricted circumstances, and Eswatini has already acquired deportees regardless of mounting criticism.