White House blasts ‘radical’ judge who stopped migrant deportions to South Sudan

Published May 22, 2025 3:33pm ET



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, Massachusetts, is trying to force the president of the United States to bring these monsters back to our country,” Leavitt told reporters Thursday, naming District Judge Brian Murphy.

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