NAIROBI (Reuters) -An aircraft carrying U.S. deportees arrived in South Sudan on Saturday, two officials working at Juba airport said, after eight migrants lost their last-ditch effort to halt their deportation by the Trump administration.
An airport staffer speaking on condition of anonymity told Reuters he had seen a document showing that the aircraft “arrived this morning at 6:00 am.”(0400 GMT) An immigration official also said the deportees had arrived in the country but shared no further details, referring all questions to the National Security Service intelligence agency.
Earlier, a South Sudan government source said U.S. officials had been at the airport awaiting the migrants’ arrival.
(Reporting by Nairobi bureau; additional reporting by Ryan Jones in Toronto and Andrea Shalal in Bedminster, New Jersey; editing by Diane Craft)
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