U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy said the removals violated his prior order that migrants be given time to challenge their deportations to countries where they are not citizens

Immigration authorities refused to say what their final destinations would be, but said their home countries had refused to receive the migrants.

The Department of Homeland Security under President Donald Trump is preparing to deport a plane full of migrants from various countries to South Sudan — a nation teetering on the brink of civil war — defying a court order to do so,