A Tacoma man is among a group of men convicted of serious crimes that President Donald Trump’s administration is trying to send to South Sudan as part of Trump’s ongoing effort to deport undocumented immigrants.

Lawyers for 43-year-old Tuan Phan learned this week that he and eight other men are being held in a converted shipping container in leg shackles at a United States Naval base in Djibouti in East Africa. The men were routed there following a May 20 deportation flight from Texas after a federal judge in Boston intervened.

Judge Brian Murphy found that the Department of Homeland Security had violated a court order by failing to provide the men a meaningful opportunity to assert any fears they had about being deported to a country not listed on their removal orders.

Murphy said the

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