'Banal horror': Judge orders Trump administration to return Guatemalan rape survivor 'wrongfully' deported to Mexico
Source: The Independent
‘Banal horror’: Judge orders Trump administration to return Guatemalan rape survivor ‘wrongfully’ deported to Mexico
The man says he was raped, held prisoner and targeted for being gay while in Mexico last year
Katie Hawkinson
in Washington, D.C.
Saturday 24 May 2025 19:38 BST
A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return a Guatemalan man who was “wrongfully” deported to Mexico.
The man, referred to as “O.C.G” in court documents, says he fled Guatemala in April 2024. While passing through Mexico, he says he was raped, targeted for being gay and held prisoner until his sister paid a ransom. Now, U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy says he must be returned to the U.S.
“In general, this case presents no special facts or legal circumstances, only the banal horror of a man being wrongfully loaded onto a bus and sent back to a country where he was allegedly just raped and kidnapped,” Murphy wrote in a Friday evening ruling.
The man has no known criminal history, and no one has “ever suggested that O.C.G. poses any sort of security threat,” Murphy wrote.
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Read more: https://www.independent.co.uk/news/world/americas/us-politics/trump-guatemala-mexico-wrongful-deportation-ruling-b2757240.html
Alternate link: https://www.yahoo.com/news/banal-horror-judge-orders-trump-160001810.html
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