Catholic immigration advocates are expressing their concern after the Trump administration apparently deported several immigrants without permanent legal status to East Africa — despite a court order restricting the government from deporting people to nations that are not their countries of origin.

“The deportation of migrants to South Sudan, in direct defiance of a court order, is a grave violation of the rule of law,” said Anna Gallagher, executive director of the Catholic Legal Immigration Network Inc., also known as CLINIC. “Our legal system is built on the principle that court rulings must be respected, yet this action undermines that foundation.”

“It’s hard to come up with words to describe how this government is defying the rule of law in their deportation campaign,” said J. Kevin

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