A federal judge appointed by former President Joe Biden denied President Donald Trump’s claim that his ruling giving eight individuals time to contest deportation to South Sudan put Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents at risk.

U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy last week said the Trump administration violated a court order on deportations to third countries with the flight to the chaotic nation of South Sudan.

Murphy, in Boston, said the eight migrants aboard the plane weren’t given a meaningful opportunity to object that the deportation could put them in danger.

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