After the Supreme Court slapped down a district court judge’s brazen defiance on Thursday in the case involving eight violent criminal illegal immigrants that the United States seeks to deport to South Sudan, the offenders were transported to their destination after spending weeks in Djibouti at a U.S military base in what was originally supposed to be a temporary layover:
The eight men had been shackled for weeks inside an air-conditioned shipping container on a U.S. military base in Djibouti, in the Horn of Africa. Before coming to the United States, the men came from Vietnam, Mexico, Laos, Cuba and Myanmar. Just one is from South Sudan, a violence-plagued country. All had been convicted of serious crimes in the United States, though many had either finished or were about to finish serving their sentences.[…]The migrants’ lawyers have contended that if they are sent to South Sudan, they will probably be subjected to torture. The U.S. government has said in its own filings that the South Sudanese government has given diplomatic assurances that this will not happen.
In an announcement confirming the arrival of the eight illegals to South Sudan, DHS again provided a brief history of who they were and their convictions. Here are a few of them for reference:
Enrique Arias-Hierro, a Cuban illegal alien, was arrested by ICE on May 2, 2025. His criminal history includes convictions for homicide, armed robbery, false impersonation of official, kidnapping, and robbery strong arm.On April 30, 2025, ICE arrested Cuban illegal alien Jose Manuel Rodriguez-Quinones. He has been convicted of attempted first-degree murder with a weapon, battery and larceny, and cocaine possession and trafficking.[…]Nyo Myint, an illegal alien from Burma, was arrested by ICE on February 19, 2025. Myint has been convicted of first-degree sexual assault involving a victim mentally and physically incapable of resisting; sentenced to 12 years confinement. Myint has also charged with aggravated assault-nonfamily strongarm.
Of the eight, only one was from South Sudan. The countries the other men were from did not want to take them back.
Naturally, woketivists in the Democratic Party are outraged, including Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-WA), who called their deportation “disgusting” and vowed Democrats will “keep fighting” for the “right” of criminal illegals to remain in America.
Fox News national correspondent Bill Melugin was among the first to set the record straight on who Jayapal was defending:
Others pointed out that if the “shipping containers” were good enough for our service members, then they were good enough for criminal illegal immigrants:
Officials in the Trump administration also responded accordingly:
Further, it’s kinda sickening to think that there are elected officials in our country who are vowing “to fight” on behalf of criminal illegals who have hurt American citizens:
Left unresolved is how Jayapal plans to “fight” for these people. Will she pull a Chris Van Hollen stunt and try to travel to South Sudan on their behalf? I almost feel like House Speaker Mike Johnson (R-LA) would be on board with funding such a trip, considering how bad the optics would be for Democrats if she did so.
That said, the optics are already terrible, with Jayapal making the GOP’s jobs easier ahead of the 2026 midterms by providing them with much material with which to work.
-Stacey Matthews has also written under the pseudonym “Sister Toldjah” and can be reached via Twitter/X.-
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