Judge Blocks Fast-Track Deportations to Third Countries

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Federal District Court Judge Brian Murphy issued a temporary restraining order to block Donald Trump’s regime from carrying out fast-track deportations of people to countries with which they have no relationship.

Murphy specified there must be an opportunity for immigrants the government wants to deport to a third country to assert claims that deportation would subject them to persecution or torture. His order seeks to “protect migrants subject to final orders of removal from being swiftly deported to countries other than those that had already been identified during immigration proceedings.”

The lawsuit Murphy is hearing challenges an 18 February 2025 directive which told officers to review cases of people who had been released from detention, and consider re-arresting them for deportation to third countries.