Thongxay Nilakout, a citizen of Laos, shot and killed a German tourist in Southern California in 1994 when he was 17. He was convicted of shooting and killing Gisela Pfleger and wounding her husband Klaus, during a robbery. Klaus survived and just celebrated his 93 rd birthday.

The Trump administration “unquestionably” violated a court order when it tried to transfer detainees to war-torn South Sudan without a meaningful opportunity to contest their removal to a place where they might face torture,

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