Judge orders government to facilitate return of deportee
Updated
May 24, 2025 at 5:27 p.m. EDT
today at 5:27 p.m. EDT
By Vivian Ho
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a gay Guatemalan man whom officials deported to Mexico despite his claims that he would be persecuted there.
U.S. District Judge Brian E. Murphy in Boston issued a ruling Friday night after the government admitted that an “error” had been made. The government had previously argued that the man had said he was not afraid of being returned to Mexico, but said in a May 16 filing that it was “unable to identify” the immigration officer to whom he purportedly said this.
The man, identified by the initials O.C.G., is one of four plaintiffs in a class-action lawsuit challenging the Trump administration over the practice of deporting immigrants without allowing them to contest their removal on the basis that they might risk persecution, torture or death if returned to their country of origin or an alternate country of removal.
O.C.G., who fled Guatemala last year after receiving multiple death threats over his sexuality, was raped by one of the men who had been helping him reach the U.S.-Mexico border and then held for ransom, according to the complaint ...
https://www.washingtonpost.com/immigration/2025/05/24/immigration-deportee-return-guatemala-mexico/
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