Federal judge orders Trump administration to return deported Guatemalan national back to U.S.

A federal judge on Friday ordered the Trump administration to bring back a deported homosexual Guatemalan man who had claimed he would be persecuted in Mexico if he was sent back.

The Justice Department found that no U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement officers had asked the man if he feared for his safety in Mexico.

U.S. District Judge Brian Murphy, who was appointed by former President Biden, issued the order to facilitate the man's return to the U.S.

"Due process is, in some sense, a binary - one either receives what the Constitution requires, or one does not," Murphy wrote. "It has been clear that O.C.G. did not receive what the Constitution requires."