From ABC News: A federal judge has ordered the Trump administration to return three immigrant families to the U.S. after finding that federal immigration agents used “lies, deception, and coercion” to remove them.
The families, according to U.S. District Judge Dana M. Sabraw, were originally separated at the southern border during the first Trump administration’s “Zero Tolerance” policy. They were supposed to be protected under a 2023 settlement that granted them temporary legal status and a path to reunification, but they were deported last summer.
In the eight-page ruling, Judge Sabraw found that the government’s removal of the families rendered the protections of the settlement “illusory.”
“The manner in which each of these removals was affected, in addition to being unlawful, involved lies, deception, and coercion,” Sabraw wrote.
The government argues that the court lacks jurisdiction to order the return of families while maintaining that some families left the U.S. voluntarily.
U.S. District Court Judge Dana Sabraw ruled that the families’ deportations violated a court settlement designed to provide certain benefits to those affected by the first Trump administration’s policy. https://t.co/NC8YiV1v3w
— CBS News (@CBSNews) February 6, 2026
BREAKING: Federal Judge Dana Sabraw orders the government to return 3 families affected by the 1st Trump administration’s family separation policy and then deported under Trump 2.0, finding the deportations to have been unlawful acts that involved “lies, deception, and coercion.” pic.twitter.com/SN4CAEJ95B
— Camilo Montoya-Galvez (@camiloreports) February 6, 2026
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