A federal judge is suggesting the Trump administration is “manufacturing” chaos and says he hopes that “reason can get the better of rhetoric” in a scathing order about government efforts to deport a handful of migrants from various countries to South Sudan.

A federal judge in Boston has told the Trump administration it must to maintain custody of migrants whom the US government has allegedly flown to South Sudan or other countries in recent days amid heightened concerns over the administration’s aggressive approach to deportations.