The United States has completed the deportation of eight foreign nationals to South Sudan after the Supreme Court overturned a lower-court stay that had blocked their transfer. The men—convicted in U.S. courts of violent crimes such as murder, sexual assault and robbery—were removed from the country on 5 July following weeks of legal battles over the government’s authority to send migrants to nations where they are not citizens. Only one of the deportees is South Sudanese; the others are from Myanmar, Cuba, Mexico, Vietnam and Laos. They had been held since May at a U.S. military base in Djibouti after their original flight was diverted when a federal judge ruled they must be given a chance to contest removal to a third country. The Supreme Court’s decision earlier this month cleared the way for their expulsion, which Homeland Security spokeswoman Tricia McLaughlin described as a victory for public safety and the rule of law. South Sudan’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs said the group arrived in Juba on 5 July and is “under the care of the relevant authorities,” undergoing screening in line with national and international norms. The ministry framed its acceptance of the men as a gesture of goodwill aimed at normalising bilateral relations after Washington had earlier suspended visas for South Sudanese nationals in a separate dispute. The deportations are part of the Trump administration’s broader strategy of expanding third-country removals when home nations refuse to take back their citizens. Eleven independent UN human-rights experts criticised the practice, warning that sending people to unstable states such as South Sudan could expose them to torture, enforced disappearance or arbitrary killing.