The move clears the way for the deportation of eight men being held in a detention center at a U.S. naval base in East Africa to conflict-ridden South Sudan.

A federal judge in Washington is briefly blocking the deportation of eight immigrants to war-torn South Sudan the day after the Supreme Court permitted it to go forward.

The Supreme Court on Thursday cleared the way for the the Trump administration to deport to South Sudan a group of migrants that have been held for weeks on a military base in Djibouti.