Migrant deported to third country returned to US after Trump admin yields to judge's order

A Guatemalan antheral who was deported to Mexico by the Trump administration was returned to the U.S. this week, his lawyers confirmed to Fox News connected Thursday, marking the first known instance of the Trump medication complying with a judge’s orders to instrumentality an idiosyncratic removed from the U.S. based connected erroneous information.

The individual, identified lone arsenic O.C.G, was returned to the U.S. via commercialized flight, lawyers confirmed, aft being deported to Mexico successful March.

The quality comes 1 week aft lawyers for the Justice Department told U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy that they were moving to charter a level to unafraid the instrumentality of the individual, identified lone arsenic O.C.G., to U.S. soil. 

Murphy had ruled that O.C.G., a Guatemalan migrant, had been deported to Mexico earlier this twelvemonth without owed process and contempt his stated fears of persecution, and ordered the Trump medication to facilitate his return. 

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People show signs during a May Day march and rally successful protestation of President Donald Trump's migration policies successful Oklahoma City connected May 4, 2025.  (Doug Hoke/The Oklahoman/USA Today Network via Imagn Images)

Additionally, Murphy told laywers for the medication that O.C.G. had not been fixed the accidental to contention his removal to a state wherever helium could look threats of torture, a close afforded nether U.S. and planetary law.

O.C.G. was antecedently held for ransom and raped successful Mexico but was not afforded the accidental to asseverate those fears anterior to his removal, Murphy noted successful his order, citing submissions from O.C.G.'s attorneys.

"In general, this lawsuit presents nary peculiar facts oregon ineligible circumstances, lone the banal fearfulness of a antheral being wrongfully loaded onto a autobus and sent backmost to a state wherever helium was allegedly conscionable raped and kidnapped," Murphy said earlier this month, noting that the removal process "lacked immoderate semblance of owed process."

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A situation serviceman guards a compartment astatine maximum-security penitentiary CECOT (Center for the Compulsory Housing of Terrorism) connected April 4, 2025, successful Tecoluca, San Vicente, El Salvador. ( (Photo by Alex Peña/Getty Images))

"The instrumentality of O.C.G. poses a vanishingly tiny outgo to marque definite we tin inactive assertion to unrecorded up to that ideal," Murphy said successful his order.

Lawyers for the Trump medication told the court past week that the Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) Enforcement and Removal Operations Phoenix Field Office made interaction implicit the play with O.C.G.’s attorneys and are "currently moving with ICE Air to bring O.C.G. backmost to the United States connected an Air Charter Operations (ACO) formation instrumentality leg."

That appears to person happened, and O.C.G. was flown via commercialized hose to the U.S. connected Wednesday.

The quality comes amid a broader tribunal combat centered connected Trump's usage of the 1798 Alien Enemies Act – an 18th-century wartime instrumentality it invoked earlier this twelvemonth to deport definite migrants much quickly. Many were sent to CECOT, El Salvador's maximum-security prison.

To date, the Trump medication has not complied with national tribunal orders to facilitate the instrumentality of those individuals to the U.S., adjacent individuals who were deported successful what the medication has acknowledged was an administrative error. 

Unlike the migrants astatine CECOT, however, O.C.G. had not been detained successful Mexico.

The Trump medication did not instantly respond to Fox News' petition for comment. They did not instantly respond to questions astir whether the medication plans to travel suit successful different cases successful which a federal judge ordered the medication to instrumentality an idiosyncratic deemed to person been wrongfully deported.

The quality comes conscionable hours aft U.S. District Judge James Boasberg ordered the Trump medication to supply each migrants removed to CECOT nether the Alien Enemies Act an opportunity to question habeas relief to contention their removal, arsenic good arsenic the accidental to situation their alleged pack status, which was the ground for their removal nether the law.

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Judge James E. Boasberg, main justice of the Federal District Court successful DC, stands for a representation astatine the E. Barrett Prettyman Federal Courthouse successful Washington, D.C., connected March 16, 2023.  (Carolyn Van Houten/The Washington Post via Getty Images)

Judge Boasberg besides gave the Trump medication 1 week to taxable to the tribunal accusation explaining however it plans to facilitate the habeas alleviation to migrants presently being held astatine CECOT.

That ruling is astir definite to provoke a high-stakes ineligible standoff with the administration, and comes arsenic Trump officials person railed against Judge Boasberg and others who person ruled successful ways seen arsenic unfavorable to the medication arsenic alleged "activist judges."

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Trump called for Boasberg's impeachment earlier this year, prompting Supreme Court Chief Justice John Roberts to contented a uncommon nationalist connection of rebuke. 

"America’s asylum strategy was ne'er intended to beryllium utilized arsenic a de facto amnesty programme oregon a catch-all, get-out-of-deportation-free card," DHS spokesperson Tricia McLaughlin said successful a connection implicit the weekend.