A countdown is on for a plane of eight immigration detainees to be flown from a US Naval base in Djibouti to war-torn South Sudan Friday night, with lawyers for the migrants rushing to judges on the Independence Day holiday to try to block the takeoff to a country where they say their clients could face torture.

The Supreme Court cleared the way for the Trump administration to deport a group of migrants with criminal records held at a U.S. base in Djibouti; the administration says they'll be sent to 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