Courts blocked the handover after lawyers raised concerns of torture. Then the Supreme Court intervened to allow the Trump administration’s plan to move forward.

The immigrants from Cuba, Laos, Mexico, Myanmar, Vietnam and South Sudan arrived in South Sudan on Friday after a federal judge cleared the way for the Trump administration to relocate them.

The Trump administration deported eight migrants with alleged criminal convictions to South Sudan, reversing an initial plan to send them to Djibouti. This action follows a Supreme Court decision removing judge-imposed due process requirements for third-country deportations.