A federal judge in Boston has told the Trump administration it must to maintain custody of migrants whom the US government has allegedly flown to South Sudan or other countries in recent days amid heightened concerns over the administration’s aggressive approach to deportations.

White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt ripped a federal judge who has prevented a group of immigrants from being deported to a third country, this time South Sudan. “A liberal activist district court judge in the city of Boston,

A federal judge ruled on Wednesday that the U.S. government violated his court order by attempting to deport migrants to South Sudan, opening another front in a battle between Donald Trump and judges who have imposed checks on the Republican president's hardline immigration policies.