Overview

• U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy ordered the administration to facilitate O.C.G.’s return after ruling his removal to Mexico lacked due process.
• ICE and Justice Department officials are arranging a government-chartered flight and securing humanitarian parole for the gay Guatemalan man.
• The administration retracted a prior sworn statement when it admitted it could not identify an official to prove that O.C.G. had expressed no fear of deportation to Mexico.
• This compliance contrasts with the continued refusal to repatriate Kilmar Abrego Garcia and “Cristian,” both wrongly sent to El Salvador under court orders.
• O.C.G.’s case forms part of a class-action challenge to the so-called third-country removal policy, which the administration is appealing to the Supreme Court.