The Trump administration has continued releasing people charged with being in the country illegally to nongovernmental shelters along the U.S.-Mexico border after telling those organizations that providing migrants with temporary housing and other aid may violate a law used to prosecute smugglers.

Acting ICE director says U.S. is using 'safe third countries' to remove public safety threats. Lawyers argue the immigrants — from Myanmar, Vietnam, Cuba, South Sudan and Mexico — were denied due process.

A federal district judge on May 21 said the Trump administration violated his court order by removing eight migrants to South Sudan without giving them an opportunity to object. The men, who have all been convicted of serious crimes,