Overview

• Justice Department court filings reveal ICE Air is coordinating a government-chartered flight to repatriate O.C.G. to the United States.
• US District Judge Brian Murphy ruled that sending O.C.G. to Mexico without a credible‐fear screening likely breached his due process rights.
• The administration initially claimed O.C.G. consented to deportation but later admitted that assertion was based on erroneous information.
• O.C.G. reported surviving rape and extortion in Mexico while seeking asylum and said he feared for his safety in both Mexico and Guatemala.
• The case joins a broader class-action challenge to the administration’s ‘third-country removals’ policy after courts ordered the return of other wrongfully deported migrants.