Judge Finds Trump Administration's Third-Country Deportations Unlawful
A federal judge in Boston on Wednesday found that the Trump administration’s policy of summarily deporting immigrants to so-called third countries — nations other than their countries of origin — is unlawful.
In an 81-page ruling, Judge Brian E. Murphy of the Federal District Court for the District of Massachusetts wrote that the government must first try to deport detained immigrants to their home countries — or to countries designated by an immigration judge when the immigrants were ordered removed from the country. After that process, immigration detainees must be given “meaningful notice” before being deported to another country, to allow them the opportunity to raise any fears they have that they might be persecuted or tortured there.
Judge Murphy, who was appointed to the bench by President Joseph R. Biden Jr., paused his own order for 15 days, which gives the government time to seek an appeal.
Still, the ruling amounts to a sweeping repudiation of one of the administration’s most aggressive deportation policies, one in which immigrants are flown to distant places to which they have no ties, including Eswatini, Rwanda and Ghana. A report released earlier this month by Senate Democrats claimed that the administration had spent more than $32 million in taxpayer funds to persuade third countries to accept roughly 300 deportees.
https://www.nytimes.com/2026/02/25/us/politics/judge-trump-administration-deportations-unlawful.html?
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Why, FFS, did he pause his order?
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