Guatemalan deportee flown back to US after judge orders Trump admin to facilitate return

BOSTON, June 4 – A Guatemalan man who was deported to Mexico despite stating he feared being persecuted there was flown back to the United States on Wednesday after a judge ordered the Trump administration to facilitate his return.Judges have directed U.S.President Donald Trump’s administration to help return several migrants to the country because they were wrongly deported, and the man’s arrival appeared to mark the first time one of those migrants has been able to come back.U.S.

District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston on May 23 ordered the Guatemalan man’s return after the Justice Department notified him that its claim that the man had expressly stated he was not afraid of being sent to Mexico was based on erroneous information.That ruling was the latest instance of a judge ordering the Trump administration to facilitate the return of a migrant swept up in the Republican president’s efforts to carry out mass deportations as part of his hardline immigration agenda, following a mistake in an individual’s case.The government likewise made an error with Maryland resident Kilmar Abrego Garcia, who was deported to El Salvador in March despite an order protecting him from removal.He remains there despite a judge ordering the administration to facilitate his return.By contrast, the Guatemalan man, identified in court papers only as O.C.G., was able to return on Wednesday on a commercial flight, said Trina Realmuto, a lawyer at the National Immigration Litigation Alliance who represents him.Unlike Garcia and another man deported to El Salvador who a judge ruled should be returned to the United States, O.C.G.

was not being detained abroad. In court papers last week, the administration indicated it was working to place O.C.G.onto a charter flight back to the United States.“We can now confirm that he is in ICE custody after arriving in California on a commercial flight and is being transported to a deten...