Trump administration must seek return of third man who was improperly deported, judge rules

The Trump administration must arrange the return of an immigrant who was deported to Mexico without being afforded his legal right to raise fears of torture or persecution, a federal judge ruled Friday night.

The ruling marks the third time that courts have ordered the administration to try to bring back deportees who were found to have been improperly or illegally deported. So far, however, the administration has not cooperated in returning the immigrants to the U.S. so they can receive the due process that, according to the courts, is legally required.

Friday’s ruling from U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy concerns a Guatemala native, identified in court papers only as O.C.G., who claims he had been raped and targeted for being gay during a previous stint in Mexico. His lawyers say he was not given a chance to assert those fears when the Trump administration put him on a bus in February and delivered him across the border. Mexican authorities then deported him to Guatemala, where he has also faced threats of persecution and violence.

U.S. and international law prohibit deporting people to countries where they are likely to be tortured. People in deportation proceedings in the U.S. have the right to formally seek protection from deportation on the basis that they may face torture in the country where they are designated to be sent.

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