Karoline Leavitt commented on a deportation flight reportedly linked to South Sudan, blaming a judge after he ruled the Trump administration had violated a previous court order.
A judge ordered the Trump administration to maintain custody of the migrants, whose lawyers say they were on a flight bound for violence-plagued South Sudan.
Lawyers for some of the eight migrants deported Tuesday said they were told they were being sent to South Sudan. People familiar with the plane said it had landed for now in Djibouti.
Homeland Security officials said the U.S. deported eight migrants convicted of crimes, but refused to say where they were sent. People familiar with the plane said it had landed for now in Djibouti.