US judge blocks Trump from fast-tracking deportations to third-countries

Nate Raymond - Reuters - 28/03
A federal judge on Friday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from deporting migrants to countries with which they had no existing relationship without giving them a chance to raise claims that they would face persecution or torture if sent there.
BOSTON, March 28 (Reuters) - A federal judge on Friday blocked U.S. President Donald Trump's administration from deporting migrants to countries with which they had no existing relationship without giving them a chance to raise claims that they would face persecution or torture if sent there.
U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy in Boston issued a nationwide temporary restraining order, opens new tab designed to protect people subject to final orders of removal from being swiftly deported to countries other than those that had already been identified during immigration proceedings.

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Since taking office on January 20, the Trump administration has struck or expanded agreements with Mexico and Central American nations to take deportees from other countries. Earlier this month, Trump invoked a 226-year-old wartime authority to send alleged Venezuelan gang members to a high-security prison in El Salvador.
The move was blocked by a federal judge but flights carrying more than 200 deportees continued to El Salvador where the men remain detained despite objections from immigrant and civil rights groups.
Murphy's decis...
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