Attorneys have had no contact with migrants held at military base in Djibouti, groups tell Supreme Court

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A group of migrants that the Trump’s administration has been holding on a military base in Djibouti have been unable to contact their attorneys, immigrant rights groups told the Supreme Court on Wednesday.

The detainees, who were initially bound for South Sudan, are part of a high-profile emergency appeal pending at the Supreme Court over the administration’s effort to remove migrants to places other than their homeland. Lower courts have required officials to provide those migrants additional notice and an opportunity to claim a fear of being tortured.

Groups representing the migrants, including the National Immigration Litigation Alliance, said in a new brief that officials had “set up a private interview room” on the base but that “to date, counsel have not heard from the