Washington, July 6 -- In a controversial move, the United States has deported eight men, many of them foreign nationals to South Sudan, following a prolonged legal tug-of-war that ultimately ended with a Supreme Court ruling in favour of the Federal government. The individuals, all convicted of serious crimes ranging from murder to sexual assault and armed robbery, were with at the end or near completion of their prison sentences. Remarkably, only one of the eight men is a South Sudanese national. The rest are nationals of Myanmar, Cuba, Vietnam, Laos and Mexico. US officials said most of their home countries had refused to accept them. Left with few options, the U.S. Department of Homeland Security opted to relocate them to South Sudan, a ...